Poem of the Day
1981
By Asiya Wadud
in a world the orange sun resets
in a world the orange sun resets
Our love has chosen its appropriate gesture
Which when viewed in the absence of all other gestures
Seems to spell the opposite of insignificant.
Here are the parrots, she says, which Mayor Washington,
the Mayor of Chicago,
in that apartment on Lake Michigan
A a
mammo pappo
gram gram
Several people from Chelsea, seminarians and clergy,
in the wand of the Oxford Movement transported to America,
made their way out to the Territory, out to Wisconsin,
Paul the Leader
at Corinth said,
"Phoebe, please go to Ephesus .
Karen made a poem
walking to rehearsal
about children making angels
No charts nor maps were accorded
him, so he fabricated a route,
a Maginot Line around the earth.
Uncle Gabe is a thoughtful man. We were out Christmas shopping together this season, & as I walked by a department store jammed with Yuletide shoppers, I saw the most remarkable woman waiting for a bus. She was splendid. Blonde, blue eyes, long legs, perfectly developed breasts...
A light from the ceiling is swinging outside on Forty-second
Street traffic is zinging
Collaborating on The Construction of Boston is interesting
Monna Vanna stares out—disdainfully? no, actually she is very young,
Beautiful, following the style of the time, and that is a certain stylish look; she has on a lot of clothes.
And Benjamin Franklin with a stamp pasted over his features