Poem of the Day
1981
By Asiya Wadud
in a world the orange sun resets
in a world the orange sun resets
Born of a sharpness, and set to music.
I like it when I’m looking
At a woman’s wrists
I like it when a woman likes to look at my wrists
It is a rugged island of much beauty.
I've just arrived,
rumpled in the harbor bar.
When snow soothes the view, it doesn’t pay to reason
with each shapely flake of its sinless topsoil.
Better admire the crystal’s moronic tolerance.
Sometimes when night turns me transparent
I want to lie on the dispassionate ground
and make of earth a gurney
Cut it way back.
Do not be afraid to pinch the first,
the only blossom. The berry cannot thrive
We are separate and will separate more
our flock beds and bolsters, our porringers
and pot hooks, brought into homes wrought
The blue in beets
comes and goes
sometimes a shadow