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
At home now the first grey
in the hollows, morning in
the grass, in the brick
Homer playing
violin
as he could have,
Okay A nightingale
does sing
outside this window
The whole man has no corners. He curves and curves.
Two who had loved in each other’s eyes met strangeness.
Wonder at loss. Distance.
August was foggy,
September dry.
October grew too hot.
the curvd lines toe-drawn, round cornerd squares
bulge out doubles from its single pillar line, like,
Venus of the Stone Age.
Sea birds over the river
Hover in my dreams at night.
I have built a world for myself
slowly, and without design
I am one of those tainted, corrupted ones
who got green bile stuck in her throat,
who cant even speak