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.
Some very mean people have just blown up the bridge
Leaped at the caribou.
My son looked at the caribou.
The kangaroo leaped on the
O blue and nerveless
stars. The night and the
distance of the lake.
People desired things they didn’t know they wanted. Angry voices, heat,
emergencies. That was a summer. Isn’t there anything you can take? she said.
She meant, I’m tired of your suffering. The rustle of the pigeons;
The rest of the painting being dominated
By two short, disproportionate figures
With fool's gold haloes.
In her dream
the wind blew her vagina out the bedroom
down the Spanish steps
The three of you are inseparable
You dance the ring around the rosy doom
I wonder if Agnes meant that innocent love is the kind of love that is within us.
I’ve only seen a dead bird up close once. It wasn’t red but blue. I named it Happiness before I buried it.
A boy drowns in a lake. Another opens
his head against a steering wheel. Another
goes downtown. Into a boardroom. Into