Poem of the Day
1981
By Asiya Wadud
in a world the orange sun resets
in a world the orange sun resets
The white attic rests
among dripping trees
This pen, like your penis,
stirs in my hand:
those two or three kids
The congregation dances perfect golden reels
redolent of sex amid the Sunday chimes;
how sweet, how… symmetrical it all is—everything else.
At the end of a long journey, I can still see that corridor, that moleskin, that warm shadow crossed by breezes pure as small children sent by the sea foam
Be fearful
if you wish to awaken in yourself the instinct of
the Beautiful;
Kiss the mother
that needs to become
that needs to need
For two months / I have not written / a word.
But why should monkeys concern us?
Intolerable pain in my right leg
resisted all simple treatments
analgesics narcotics blocked nerves
1. Three men. Two of them seated. The third, standing with his back turned to the room’s only window, permits his beautiful eyes to stray across an infinite space. His right arm is extended, as if he were saying something, as if there were something he wanted to say.