Poem of the Day
Yellow Striped Pajamas
By Shamsher Bahadur Singh
walking silently on his paws, he emerges from the semidarkness and disappears into it.
walking silently on his paws, he emerges from the semidarkness and disappears into it.
I live every once in a while, mostly I hope that that trolley passes, that May turns into July
Buddhas on stilted chairs
Today I am in the room watching the sun evaporate.
Here I am born a brilliant mistake from infinity
And the idea of existence reminds me of turtles
You know how / fussy he is
I can not feel her voice I am too far away skiing in Austria.
My heart wears a pair
Of shoes that once belonged
To a young poet
Three guys in fluorescent vests are taking down
a tree along my neighbor’s fence line, which is, of course,
my fence line, with my two round-eyed snakes and my wandering
raccoon.
A closer look reveals the blue-dark knot
undone, the torn tissues of the lips,
the disheveled velvets and violet silks
of a woman hurrying to a tryst
Suppose I say the hardest thing to say.
In a famous drawing two black silhouettes
gaze at each other, noses almost touching.