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
Tanka	Sadakichi Hartmann	03/08/2014
A Toast	Ilya Kaminsky	03/07/2014
C'est La Guerre	Danniel Schoonebeek	03/06/2014
Joseph Brodsky in Venice (1981)	Campbell McGrath	03/05/2014
The Long Hand Wishes It Was Used	Jackie Clark	03/04/2014
When There Were Ghosts	Alberto Ríos	03/02/2014
Scandal	Lola Ridge	03/02/2014
The Dreamer	Djuna Barnes	03/01/2014
The Barnacle and the Gray Whale	Cecilia Llompart	02/28/2014
To My Oldest Friend, Whose Silence Is Like a Death	Lloyd Schwartz	02/27/2014

Title

Author

Date

Tanka

03/08/2014