Poem of the Day
1981
By Asiya Wadud
in a world the orange sun resets
in a world the orange sun resets
Dusk—and the shimmer on the sea
has quickened and gone still. The large,
lithe Hurricane birds soar in circles
I took the skin of my twin for a jacket,
pulled it along my legs as stockinettes,
pocketed its bones and fat in my side
From the bedroom you can see
straight to the fringe of the woods
with a cross-staved gate to re-
Probably
evening is falling. Not because of the years,
which are numerous, but because the play
It was where the wooden bridge
crosses to Porto Corsini on the open sea
and a few men, in slow motion, lower
Late at night
men entered her ground-floor
room via the window.