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.
Rock reproduces rock
In miniature
On rock
A door:
PER L’UNIVERSO
is what it says
Ranges
of clinker heaps
go orange now:
Reading this, you are waiting for the curtain
To go up on a glade, vistaed valley
Or colonnade of lath. Yet you are not here
signal the presence of a river.
A side road leads us on—
parched grass, a rock horizon—
The sun flung out at the foot of the tree
A perfect shadow on snow: we found that we
Were suddenly walking through this replica,
The limbs of the giant spruce that leans
So close to the house, have formed
A kind of stair, a walkway
The child floats out his Indian cry
Across the river. Where did the Mohawks go to?
It arrives with the breath of mudflats as we pass by
I remember you with your loaf of Italian bread
In your mature years after the promised farm
The photo left in your innocence of knickers
A man like snow in Paris beautiful machine
Riding into the stars
A world of Michaels