Poem of the Day
1981
By Asiya Wadud
in a world the orange sun resets
in a world the orange sun resets
That man over there
looking sidelong
as you sidelong
The way of free things unmatched she moved
expert of love but love more subtly tuned
than a watcher would expect from naive distance
Something about what matters
Breathes in the twilight blushing
Everything here on the piers.
It’s the willed trick of concentration
that makes of these heat-heavy
bogged declivities —the graves of
He looked beneath the rock to find the god
that he had hidden there—that's Oscar
Wilde on Wordsworth's Sublime,
Hunkered, totally
spaced, in the half-open door of the fridge
with my trifocals fogging, scanning the five
No sleep for either of us on the flight to
Maine and then to Gatwick. From the train, backyard
allotments and cooperatives, the city hardly
Left to itself, setting is the chance that
something good might happen. A highway runs the
length of the peninsula. The suburbs overlap.
If you cannot make a living from your art,
double the art, double any part
(but not the whole)
Heaven bribes me;
But for a dream
I have only to lie down.