From Oral via Sceptre
“A want ti go where it’s aw there in the raise ae an eyebrow
A want ti speak Klingon”
Tag: poem a day
RPAD Day 024. Soheil Rezayazdi – “Nihilistic Password Security Questions”
via McSweeney’s
“In what city did you first experience ennui?”
RPAD Day 023. Fatimah Asghar – “If They Should Come For Us”
via the Poetry Out Loud website.
“a colony of uncles grind their palms & a thousand jasmines bell the air”
RPAD Day 022. David Kirby – “More Than This”
From Rattle, issue 50.
RPAD Day 021. Jennifer Compton – “You Know Who You Are”
from “Blue” via Indigo (an imprint of Giranderra Press)
“At the bottom of the garden
he has another house
that I never knew about.”
RPAD Day 020. John Burnside – “An Essay Concerning Light”
“I knew it had something to do
with looking again, how something behind the light
had gone unnoticed;”
From “The Hunt In The Forest” via Jonathan Cape Books
RPAD Day 019. Katherine Towers – “The Way We Go”
“the way we go about our lives
trying out each empty room”
from “Poems On The Underground” via Particular Books
RPAD Day 018. Ben Okri – “is humanity exhausted?”
from “Mental Fight” via Phoenix Press.
“is nature exhausted?
ask the oak-tree, the hollies”
RPAD Day 017. Nicole Burney – “Bobby McFerrin”
a slap bass spine
the djembe of my left eye…
RPAD Day 016. Geoff Lemon – “Bridging”
from “Sunblind” via Picaro Press