Poem of the Day
1981
By Asiya Wadud
in a world the orange sun resets
in a world the orange sun resets
So much for the fighting
and the sex
The facts sit in an ordinary room. They resemble people:
stubborn and without imagination.
As a child, my hand closed over a centipede,
There was a penny in my mouth
When I enter the cemetery
of San Felice a Ema
I have to go past many tombstones
People talk and talk more
about black holes.
Concerning the universe, the city of God,
we know very little.
Husbands
fill up
the whole world
You swing yourself
from hour
to hour.
It was a perfectly
normal day.
We were agreeable
Half a summerhouse
half a pound of butter
half a child.