Poem of the Day
hand-to-hand pass
By Simone White
while the palms touch and digits suggestively link
so movement of the hands of each
does occur
while the palms touch and digits suggestively link
so movement of the hands of each
does occur
Sat for three days in a white room
a tiny truck of white flowers
was driving through the empty window
Script in hand
Stands revealed in Awesome Splendor.
Jigsaw puzzle is pieced together:
out steps a flute player.
The green world thinks the sun
Into one flower, then outraces
It to the sea in sunken pipes.
They are preparing to begin again:
Problems, new pennant up the flagpole
In a predicted romance.
Silly girls your heads full of boys
There is a last sample of talk on the outer side
Your stand at last lifts to dumb evening
I give up:
I bleed I must know.
Grant me the
Then love introduces the expensive dream
Of peace into this last report on the future
Of the past, as the pen snaps
I keep circling the Triborough Bridge
Hell’s Gate Bridge always with a line of freight cars
Randall’s Island, my sister in red and gold cheerleader clothes
A man like snow in Paris beautiful machine
Riding into the stars
A world of Michaels