Poem of the Day
Study of Children
By Asha Futterman
did you know
that you all work for me?
I asked them as a joke
Poetry: J-L
I Had a Man
By Dorothea Lasky
Today when I was walking
I had a man tell me as he passed
That I was a white bitch (he was white)
It’s a Lonely World
By Dorothea Lasky
It’s a lonely world
Hi everybody
It’s Dorothea, Dorothea Lasky
Mother
By Dorothea Lasky
There’s a kind of transformation
That can happen on any day
Old Photo
By Dorothea Lasky
It says 1921 in the picture
And I am smiling
But it’s not me anymore
Porn
By Dorothea Lasky
All types of porn are horrific
I just watched a woman fuck a hired hand
In her marble kitchen while her friends looked on
The Orange Flower
By Dorothea Lasky
What is between us
Is an orange flower
And it is blooming and blooming
The Rain
By Dorothea Lasky
What is going to happen
Is that it’s going to rain
Rain my love
Twins
By Dorothea Lasky
Man in an Easter suit
Leans into me
To kiss me
The Eels
By Quinn Latimer
Inside a large porcelain bowl
the eels move one against
the other, two black rainbows
Though It Be Foreign, Though It Be Terrible
By Quinn Latimer
Water pools the roof into mirrors
thin as any, the storm lilting