Poem-a-Day

Poem-a-day

Easy as an exquisite corpse paraphrased
as dictionaried as a pontificator

raised by the thump of the 146 bus—
these 16 are for you. Shout out

to the city warblers yelling in slanted
syllables on avenues porous

with ill-built adornments & horse-riding
monuments. These 16 are for you:

linebreakers & trash talkers, polysyllabic
halfsteppers ready to mom’s spaghetti

their one opportunity. Meanwhile,
the rooftop across from us undercuts

the sunsetted skyline & is topped with
two metric heretics dressed

like crows. Another bullheaded poet
ina Bulls hat rests his elbows

on the bench back & wonders if
it is his hoarse verse or the verbed

streetlights making ellipsis from
the veritable trees & inevitable breezes.

Adrian Matejka

Previous Poems

Title	Author	Date
Self-Care	Faylita Hicks	02/21/2023
her aint even at de funeral	avery r. young	02/20/2023
Plácido’s Farewell to His Mother	Gabriel de la Concepción Valdés	02/19/2023
The Eyes of My Regret	Angelina Weld Grimké	02/18/2023
The Lose Your Mother Suite VI. “across the surface of my studied speech”	Remica Bingham-Risher	02/17/2023
St. Valentine, Bishop of Terni, probably beheaded, was also the patron saint of asthma, beekeepers, and epilepsy, so he might have said	Lynne Thompson	02/16/2023
An Act of Love	Tommye Blount	02/15/2023
Wetland	francine j. harris	02/14/2023
Love Poem Attempt 3/?	Taylor Byas	02/13/2023
Challenge	Sterling A. Brown	02/12/2023

Title

Author

Date

Self-Care

02/21/2023