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.
“I would only like to repeat, you know, nothing else”
this afternoon
it’s impersonal, does not apply to anyone
All of you no doubt have felt
the soft sleep, the sweetest dizziness
easing you down on the bed
So obsessed am I with feeling
That I sometimes lose my way when I step free
From all the sensations I receive.
I’m going to make a poem out of nothing.
Heads up, false friends use familiarity as camouflage.
In the source language deciduous might be confused with apathy,
but nothing could be further away from desidia than the timed impermanence of leaves.
News
has it that late in the month the sun had an outburst
It rises from childhood
like a humpback whale, water
streaming down the grill,
The atmosphere surrounding you
reaches heights in which
it changes things
To begin with: I object to this line
of questioning. Custom holds that being
Port with the tossed deck, whipping
Sheep-bends between the coiled lines.
We lean. Our faith in bracing and ballast.