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.
walking silently on his paws, he emerges from the semidarkness and disappears into it.
Into Miami at night then out over gulf island and jungle
We had traveled so fast that we arrived
on the right bank of the RÍo de la Plata
The shadow of the photographer reaches over
almost to the wee tyke in a sombrero who listens
to the music these horny hardrock miners are making
The moon is sick. I fear she'll die
from lack of love, from poverty
and homelessness, lost in the sky,
What they had for ideals
must persist in the taut set
of that rearing horse's head,
Flecked on a layer of mortar on the pillbox lid,
the tiles pieced together by some kindred myopic
have caught this much of Tuscany: hills worn down
Now I am flying a land
compressed below me, a realm,
I alight and descend to:
Long Island as it was in the cold
The suddenly bought land
Was stilled in its habits. Indians
Too light-fingered for events
You laugh when I tell you, but it is truth.
Countless physicians have affirmed it, according
to their various specialties. The oral surgeon,
We hiked up a canyon in the cold summer rain.
It was late in the day and on the mountain
across the canyon there was a section of
For the base I prefer a paste of unscented soap, egg white, & glue or gelatin, often peroxide—
never, as do some of my competitors, chewed muslin strips or (loathsome!) bits of animal tissue!
Though receiving but five dollars each night at the lyceum (a dollar at home),