Poem of the Day
1981
By Asiya Wadud
in a world the orange sun resets
in a world the orange sun resets
Eastern Sea, 100 fathoms,
green sands, pebbles,
broken shells.
A slender plank above a waterhole,
planted on end to meet my wants,
I hear its whisper in the stock.
As I write The getting & losing of it
into beer, my right hand
the secret branches radiate from
On the ...Madrid, last capitol of the silence...
invisible thru corridors of 9,000 lungs, wand/legged ladies
protected from slow muffle machines
sun is first coming through the eucalyptus early morning
the question you asked
in the center of the world we were making
Writing with swiftness concerning the movement of water,
of startled fishes, the lavender sea-fan, the lobster,
you have omitted the arch of sand and the rigmarole
In a loft facing a parking lot
on a main drag of the tired
southend, lives my friend
i believe you, i
believe you. but
tho you be the fool,
Who was Mary Shelley?
What was her name
before she married?