Poem of the Day
1981
By Asiya Wadud
in a world the orange sun resets
in a world the orange sun resets
Into sunlight they marched,
into dog day, into no saints day,
and were cut down.
The sky is full of bleating lambs
which bob above us. The rains flood
our apartment. Here no word exists
They say that when a goose flies south it holds a twig in its beak to keep from making a sound the hunters might hear.
I was bilbarious I was overt under the line overt the word
It walks.
That is,
it puts one foot in front of another
Their tracings, nearly identical.
Knowing, tonight
if I start with one I should carry through,
Don’t forget that while my legs
were clamped around the mule’s
ribs climbing a defunct
There is a man in pajamas
standing on the ledge.
His manner went to Queen Elizabeth
decapitating Mary—Queen of Gaul.
Throckmorton had become a shibboleth.
The eyes of your eyes not yet
open. Tongue. Bud lip. I come
to watch the heart