Poem for Japan- Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More
I don't know what I'd do without the poem received each day via email from Poets.org. And every Tuesday another poem appears, sent from Line Break. Here's is Poem for Japan, which is featured on Poets.org:
Poem for Japan
by Matthew Zapruder
all day staying inside
listening to a podcast
discuss how particles
over the Pacific
might drift
I knew thinking
whenever cloud
scares me
I am not alone
my umbrella slept
in the closet
I placed a few nouns
in beautiful cages
then let them out
touched with my mind
the lucky cat
asleep in the deli
I always scratch
his head he slightly
raises to meet my hand
all over the remains
contaminated shadowmen
in blue suits that seem
ecclesiastical now
that science is
a religion crawl
the emperor
everyone has forgotten
is speaking
no one knows
how to be
loving and also
hope the wind
in a certain
and not another
direction will blow
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