Poem of the Day
1981
By Asiya Wadud
in a world the orange sun resets
in a world the orange sun resets
It says 1921 in the picture
And I am smiling
But it’s not me anymore
All types of porn are horrific
I just watched a woman fuck a hired hand
In her marble kitchen while her friends looked on
What is between us
Is an orange flower
And it is blooming and blooming
What is going to happen
Is that it’s going to rain
Rain my love
Man in an Easter suit
Leans into me
To kiss me
Though It Be Foreign, Though It Be Terrible
Water pools the roof into mirrors
thin as any, the storm lilting
Now that I am up here in the sky I can see
The mare di San Tommaso is a puddle of ink,
A hierarchy of imperial blue tints, tempting
I am falling into the abyss
My fate is sealed
What a cruel martyrdom
you must get well right
away your mistress loves
you and she needs you to
Don’t Try to Explain
The mind of a lover is a labyrinth
of false starts and miscalculations