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.
The sky is pitiless. I beg
your pardon? OK then
the sky is pitted. The yard
I'll tell you who I am: someone
you never met
though on a train you studied a boil on my neck
Then I do not know what
to paste next in the
Trash Book: grass, pretending
I hate my disordered
backyard fence
For her size the moor hen
lays a large egg
and many of them
Visitor to Witley Court
enter at your peril
It’s time again.
Tear up the violets
and plant something more difficult to grow.
On his knees, his back to us: the pale honeydew melons of his
bare buttocks, the shapely, muscular hemispheres—
the voluptuous center.
It was deja vu all over again.
I know this town like the back of my head.
People who live in glass houses are worth two in the bush.
Although I was tenacious, I never learned
the wisdom and will of tenacity;
Although I was persistent, and praised for persistence,