Poem-a-Day

Poem-a-day

I am a child
of wonder again and
rain tells me to watch
for snails and slugs.

I gather dirt, sand, and sticks
for the terrarium
where I make a safe home
away from footsteps, fast cars, and ditch water.

I don’t want them to die
so I make them
a space for living.

I ask my ma to buy lettuce
because in the book I got from the library
I learned they will eat lettuce.

I am
greedy to learn
what keeps everything alive.

Their spiral shapes leave shiny trails behind.
I imagine I am a snail leaving
magic everywhere I go.

Marlanda Dekine

Previous Poems

Title	Author	Date
did-you-just-say-thang theory	Tiana Reid	06/04/2020
All Souls Procession	Brandon Shimoda	06/03/2020
I Was Called Back	Samuel Ace	06/02/2020
Lines on Love’s (Loss*)	Erica Hunt	06/01/2020
Childhood Memories	William Saphier	05/31/2020
Through Time and Bitter Distance	Emily Pauline Johnson	05/30/2020
A History of Domestication	Sun Yung Shin	05/29/2020
What Sadness Anywhere Is Sadness	Shane McCrae	05/28/2020
To Francisco X. Alarcón (1954–2016)	Eduardo C. Corral	05/27/2020
attention as a form of ethics [excerpt]	Asiya Wadud	05/26/2020

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06/04/2020