Poem of the Day
1981
By Asiya Wadud
in a world the orange sun resets
in a world the orange sun resets
Slip is one
law of crash
among dozens.
Much
of life is Dutch
one-digit operations
Eventually the
most accident-prone
One can't work
by lime light.
A bowl full
right at
one's elbow
(What a Trojan horse)
thought Matrigupta,
rewarded for his verse
There is snow on Vesuvius
And the barometer has dropped to one.
Winter again and Spring suspended
I don’t have to tell you. The small birds—
red and black finches, khaki banana quits—
invaded our bungalow, snatched crumbs, devoured
Yellow is the most
primary of the colors,
owing nothing to any