Poem of the Day
1981
By Asiya Wadud
in a world the orange sun resets
in a world the orange sun resets
O tree my mother
Your trunk is old. Green and deep lives your leafy branch
And each green leaf winks its eye
Long ago I found a seed,
And kept it in a glass of water,
And half forgot my dim intent
The gilt girl said, And when we got to bed,he starts in pawing. And he never stops.And nothing happens. Are you drunk? or gay?
Difficult not to see significance
In any landscape we are charged to watch,
Impossible not to set all seasons there
Classified as a modern calamity,
the salamander hibernates all winter
in the hollow of a tree
Look, in the attic, the unentered room,
A naked boy leans on the outspread knees
Of his tall brother lolling in costume,
Martin sat young upon his bed
A budding cenobite,
Said ‘Though I hold the principles
All in the day that I was born,
I walked across the shouting corn,
I saw the sunlight flash and hail
Chagall’s sweet lovers mounting into blue
Remind me that discovery by two
Of any world the mind can wander through
Lured by the wall, and drawn
To stare below the roof,
Where pigeons nest aloof