Poem-a-Day

Poem-a-day

Assault

^—after^{Edna St. Vincent Millay}

I.
I forget there were good things, too—
Revere Beach and feeding seagulls soggy french fries,
watching them plunge into the sand, then emerge,
the red spot of their beaks mistaken for ketchup.

II.
Beauty intercepts the drive home. The sky
beckons with its clouds the shape of a ribcage
opening upward. Another is a honeycomb.
Imagine being brushed by the air enough times.
Imagine you’re unrecognizable.

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Diannely Antigua

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Title	Author	Date
When Bad Things Happen to Good People	Lynn Melnick	07/08/2019
Outcast	Claude McKay	07/07/2019
Orchard	H.D.	07/06/2019
Paper Cuts	Natalie Scenters-Zapico	07/05/2019
Hello, New Year	Marc McKee	07/04/2019
For Katy	Rodney Jones	07/03/2019
While Waiting for the Bus	Eliot Khalil Wilson	07/02/2019
10 AM is When You Come to Me	Meg Day	07/01/2019
The Bronze Legacy	Effie Lee Newsome	06/30/2019
To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works	Phillis Wheatley	06/29/2019

Title

Author

Date

When Bad Things Happen to Good People

Lynn Melnick

07/08/2019