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
from backbite
By P. Inman
tract wrote school, arm nane of reddening.
self all in evenlies, most of language looking for a landscape.
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Noose soaked in orange blossom water
By Jolanda Insana
as long as we’re together and here
we’re poetrying
How to Wash Your Hands
By Stephen Ira
they brought handwashing experts to prep school
one day.
from Etudes
By Ken Irby
whether at fault
quaver at crack
the heart breaks
freight not the affections
Evening Poem
By Kenneth Irby
Peace out on the land—even if it’s
Halloween, and the spirits out
walking on the land, kids
Pastorale II
By Kenneth Irby
The fog lies thick over the bay,
above Mt. Tamalpais
Juvescence of Autumn
By Mark Irwin
At dusk the ambulance came
pulling all the way up onto the lawn
like a red speed boat drifting
Robert Mapplethorpe’s Photograph of Apollo (1988)
By Mark Irwin
What’s missing is the body, its nakedness wrapped
in marble. What’s missing is the hair, the floating hair
that falls in chalky tendrils. Only the face, huge
At the Jackie Onassis Auction
By Benjamin Ivry
Jog around our reservoir of dreams, Jackie,
diamonds dripping from your eyes
as a load of cameleopards trot
How Balanchine Spelled Despair
By Benjamin Ivry
In a PBS documentary, from a drawer
the ballerina pulled a love poem
penned by the late choreographer