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.
Doctor, you say there are no haloes
around the streetlights in Paris
and what I see is an aberration
Some nights are as black
as belladonna—the black that gathers
at the back of the throat when a boy's
voice falls over your head like a hood:
I pretend a knowing of your skin or,
beneath it, the wells of yourself, over the time it took
you here.
Then we could ride all day and yet
not reach the farthest edge of our demesne,
its slow hand clap of grouse
I affirm my devotion to your ingenious application, allowing you to track my whereabouts across all devices.
Sudden cold or the sudden sense of having been cold for a long time
He said he was getting back some things that had been lost like what
Love oh great looking out across the river he wouldn’t meet my eyes either
Give me a word for the
mourning of houses when it rains
through an open window.
Barefoot Las Vegas. A place devoted
to the possibilities of a spark.
Funny how the unnecessary
can seem so important
Lonesome as the color of your hair
Unbound at sundown