Poem-a-Day

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

Poem-a-day

I’m writing
a love poem
even with
an American
boot to
my throat.

I lick the croony
sole and picture
you in a fresh white
wife pleaser.

You got
two fingers
dripping money
down my mouth.

Our razor
can do
so much.

Title	Author	Date
As I Grew Older	Langston Hughes	02/05/2022
Nailing Things Down	Linda Susan Jackson	02/04/2022
Three Wrong Notes	Joel Dias-Porter	02/03/2022
Not Once	Sharon Olds	02/02/2022
From “Autobiography of My Alter Ego”	Yusef Komunyakaa	02/01/2022
February	Tamiko Beyer	01/31/2022
The Crystal Gazer	Sara Teasdale	01/30/2022
Apparition	Stéphane Mallarmé	01/29/2022
testify	Eve L. Ewing	01/28/2022
Afternoon in Andalusia	Sahar Romani	01/27/2022