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
did you know
that you all work for me?
I asked them as a joke
I.
I will tell you. Maybe
You’re leaning in the open
Doorway of some Irish bar,
It was I think in a small town in Ohio
I taped to the wall above my office desk the postcard
Of Klimt's painting called The Park
Because of one blow
I have entered the celibacy
Of silence
Home is helped into view a cluster
of first-reel iconographic
ships, much sunnier rays—
Her warmth had fallen on silence, in spite of all promises. . .
rank after rank they bled, according to their caste
each rank a source for the next of savage harvest.
Even the moon has its own snail,
Gnomic, removed
Under miles of water, its pale
I know there is a window
Opening onto
A garden
The room is dying honey and lemon rind.
I dreamed I bad been dreaming.
And sadness did descend.
And when from the first dreaming
In a deck chair
under castellated clouds
Campari and tonic