Poem of the Day
1981
By Asiya Wadud
in a world the orange sun resets
in a world the orange sun resets
Sound a brake followed nothing it’s flower withers between ninety-two cobblestones.
the glance is filtered in the plaited reflection of glass buildings
That is why uprooted fields meandered in the midst of roads
Nothing is left but the pyramids.
How heavy the stones of the pyramids are!
I cannot tell you when, where
in what city or time
I saw this crime.
In the night, when the newspaper’s
proofreader died
he died without reading the proof.
if ever again
with the waves
the dog’s way east
1. THE CHANTING IN TIBET HAS NOT CEASED IT IS AS IMMORTAL AS MEAT IS.
2. HORNS, CYMBALS, AND LIGHTNING BOLTS OVER GLACIERS.
3. BEARDED SEA OTTERS CRACKING MUSSELS ON STONES ON THEIR STOMACHS.
It was no more than the description of a burst of rain
and handkerchiefs of lightning which burned the secret of trees—
then why did they resist her?
Conversation
words=canned reasoning
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Grammar tells us