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.
Poetry: G-I
Likely Images
By William Hunt
With Pelléas and Mélisande, Claude
Debussy turned to sleeping figures:
the garden was growing cold, its trees
Outside with Georg Trakl
By William Hunt
He's never seen these stars before
and tumbles headfirst down
the castle's rumpled courtyard stairs.
Eclipse
By Siri Hustvedt
The dandelion was hidden
That day in June
When the moon eclipsed the prairie
Hermaphroditic Parallels
By Siri Hustvedt
And the stone edifice stood perfectly still—
Like the parents of that imbecile, shocked
By the ingenuity it showed in its own destruction.
Weather Markings
By Siri Hustvedt
The list of small deformities passed unrecorded
In the stupor of heredity,
Like our weather,
A Horace to Horace
By Ishion Hutchinson
Lost causes confound. Where are you, cousin,
since you swung upside down the iron gate
outside school? The earth is your sky—correct
My Nocturne
By Ishion Hutchinson
hammock me in the graveyard alone under the flowering noni tree grandmother me blown-turned leaves
Reading ‘The Tempest’
By Ishion Hutchinson
Tremor in his hands. He turns obsolete
leaves edged with thunder since the opening scene.
What he sees he reads under croton shade,
out in the sun.
Sundays
By Ishion Hutchinson
Quite a row of them sitting there
Quite a row of them sitting there
Evangelical Sundays. Church hats,
The Anabasis of Godspeed
By Ishion Hutchinson
i.
Now these were the embarkations they made to the holy places of egypt sinai
palestine and syria in the years of furies 1916–17 unto the last 1918. Godspeed under the schoolyard’s cherry tree scrawled his anabasis marred by dust and the red smell of the sea.
ii.
Disembarked for alexandria shuck camp and enchained at moascar and proceeded to el
ferdan where it dechained and proceeded to reduit camp where it encamped and took over duties and post defenses in the sun.
iii.
And was shuck off the strength accordingly. england. Heavy-clouded. That was the month of
the death of the late Field Marshal Right Honourable H. H. Earl Kitchener of Khartoum K.G. G.C.B. O.M. G.C.S.I. G.C.M.G. G.C.I.E. Colonel Commandant Royal Engineers Colonel Irish Guards Secretary of State for war that for a period of one week officers of the army shall wear mourning with their uniforms on this melancholy occasion. The boy wiped cherry on his lionized shirt in bad faith.