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 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
The lightest touch
if it is gently giv-
en can yield as much
affection as a deep
The apparition of these faces in the bough;
Crowds on a wet, black petal.
The apparition of these boughs in the face;
Crowds on a wet, black petal.
My theory that the people on both sides
of the mountain range were Brabers is a-
rousing violent controversy and censure
is too much with me daylong and
in my dreams my mind is invaded
Remembering Nabokov
A dark damp night and a sudden hatch
of moths has covered the glass of the
Egon Schiele knew that he was two people
there was no doubt about it Romain Gary
wanted to be two people but he made a
They call me Jack Jigger because
I'm entirely made of little pieces
Taken from other people (some are