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
lumbering logging lonesome
lugging
muggy weather
numbs my brain
Airplanes take us where we’re going and leave us there,
I crisscross my feelings with a view
of street, people walking, some crazy looking, from a window
a box a camera with a one-track mind
behind it
can’t see too good
Perhaps I’m kidding myself about
the life I lead
Sometimes I feel I’m dying
lines which are the imitation of imagined veins
passing thru my quivering city
“your city?”
It’s so cold in here I can’t do anything
You stow them to the rear of worship: bits of jagged iron,
candle nubs, miscellaneous gears and levers, each perfect
unto itself but useless apart from its fellows. The human
PUGIN
I was reading a biography of Pugin. Architecture
was how Pugin avoided God.
This much is evident. When he slipped out at night
to drift down to the water he was a smoke.
He did not look up at the moon. We can be sure
that any bargain he made was intentional
especially those he bound in straps made of snow.
The line, its sleek ark. Stow the creatures where the calendar
can’t snatch them. Coal is unreasonable in all its phases.
Into the open pearls, I was, at first, sure I’d read. The coasts of it,