Poem of the Day
Yellow Striped Pajamas
By Shamsher Bahadur Singh
walking silently on his paws, he emerges from the semidarkness and disappears into it.
Poetry: 1990s
E.S.P.
By Roger Weingarten
I was watching the last minutes
of the ’76 Summer Olympics when
P. S .
By Roger Weingarten
Like a Hyacinth Macaw
screaming across the gorge,
your laughter smashed against the bars
Bloom’s Photograph
By William Wadsworth
another cold and golden fall
and knowledge as to how to leave
Saturn
By William Wadsworth
And we were convinced in our ecstasy
that our father was eating us.
The Spider
By William Wadsworth
The lovers peer from hammocks of flesh
where time, subtle as a spider,
hoards them in its net.
The Snake in the Garden Considers Daphne
By William Wadsworth
you could arrange them as you wished
and change the ending of our story.
The Chinese New Year
By Charlie Smith
Cool spring, and a fine freshness,
burred and fruity airs along Canal,
To Lautréamont
By Charlie Smith
You are on my mind always these days,
always in the high cavities of the wind
Expressions in Cement
By Michael J. Rosen
The morning new cement is laid—at last! —
along the perimeter of Penn’s remodeled highrise
(although the old had spalled, cracked and heaved
Another View of Penn
By Michael J. Rosen
During his stay, he catches glimpses of the TV’s
glare, a black-and-white dim series