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
Poetry: 2020s
The Moon that fell from heaven
By Unknown
When the Moon fell, he fell from heaven, and no one saw him fall.
from “Bird Watching”
By Eileen Myles
flying into the air
exhilarated and
scared shitless
My Nocturne
By Ishion Hutchinson
hammock me in the graveyard alone under the flowering noni tree grandmother me blown-turned leaves
Elegy as the Four Seasons
By Katie Peterson
Summer is never
On Some Whim or Other
By Mariano Melgar
“Phyllis, be done with me once more,
as long as, a day or two later,
you declare peace again.”
Cave Painting
By Patricia Lockwood
Something four-legged at least. A beast.
Robot slipped comically on cave pearls.
And went in every direction.
The Ventifact
By Patricia Lockwood
It howled like a person,
It howled when it stopped.
Perfect Pussy
By Patricia Lockwood
“This Thursday you’ll have a substitute,” The teacher wrote—Pam Ederhuller, Previously a general practitioner.
I Wasn’t Always This Ugly
By Roque Dalton
You see I have this broken nose I got
when el tico Lizano hit me with a brick
because I said it was obviously a foul
Outpost
By Yongyu Chen
I took the pill of estradiol. My feet hurt.