Poem-a-Day

The only daily poetry series publishing new work by today’s poets.

Poem-a-day

My last chance child
went to Utah on a hired truck.
Insured specimens.

Hopeful miniature, still life,
the wild question remains:
Will we reap a harvest from you?

Hopeful, round portion
at the final bite.
Smallest maybe.

Merciful miniature,
still life.

Title	Author	Date
Tender Buttons [Nothing Elegant]	Gertrude Stein	09/10/2016
Song of the Open Road, 1	Walt Whitman	09/10/2016
Strange Celestial Roads	Adrian Matejka	09/09/2016
Harmony	Aaron Fagan	09/08/2016
When America Cuts My Daughter’s Hair		09/07/2016
White Lobelia	Stephanie Burt	09/06/2016
The Coal Picker	Amy Lowell	09/05/2016
A Visit to the Asylum	Edna St. Vincent Millay	09/04/2016
The Inward Morning	Henry David Thoreau	09/03/2016
The Secret in the Mirror	Alberto Ríos	09/02/2016