Poem of the Day
Study of Children
By Asha Futterman
did you know
that you all work for me?
I asked them as a joke
did you know
that you all work for me?
I asked them as a joke
I post the sign
late in spring
drawn on sewn skins
I hugged myself
and it changed my aerodynamics.
I began spinning out of control.
These were your sighs,
your toss,
the listing yoke
Nothing moves.
There is an amazing silence.
I become large and bored with sitting here.
I could not speak the name of the place,
the stone building that gave
more silence to the field.
In a field of broken antlers,
I’m holy
as the grass
I don’t give
a pound of
mule mucous
I give up:
I bleed I must know.
Grant me the
Everything about
a human
is doomed
Although it is noon or roughly so, the church below is
positioned like an hour hand
at eleven o’clock,