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.
There came a time when she found pleasure
in saying the word pussy, alert to see whom it shocked
My neighbor was a biker, a pusher, a dog
and wife beater.
In bad dreams I killed him
One day it will vanish,
how you felt when you were overwhelmed
by her, soaping each other in the shower,
wordless, but not quite silent
unless to say love, unless not to speak
—there is leftover gunpowder in this line
becoming a simplified beginning
poetry is a sky giving this its performance
no name, no grave, no home
the nameless sung by the nameless
and add to that no sound
silent, but loud
the idea is like a boat sliding by
read pearls, beginning to roll
internal cries of cliffs beginning to resemble the sea
the grass of passion decreases
on the basis of us, decreases
My nails clinging to her black silk net
She drops me, and my forehead strikes
The enchantment of slabs.
Even if the mountain burns itself out, even if the survivors slaughter one another—shepherd, sleep. No matter where. I shall find you.
By a lane of irises and scarlet mud
going down to the spring to dry it up...