Poem-a-Day

Poem-a-day

You don’t go through the motions
but let them go
through you, work your
trauma like an animal
in the wild might.

You’re amongst friends. See bear, see
dolphin or dragon catching the nothing
that catches them
and releasing it. Holding on only

to what serves them stay free,
an animal knows what that is.
A siege is a zoo

and civility a house pet.
An alphabetical trick
made the chimera in me non observable.

See cicada or when home is a howling
intifada. Your heart, utterly flexible,
a wind like water,
the stubborn wind.

Fady Joudah

Previous Poems

Title	Author	Date
Midsummer	William Cullen Bryant	07/31/2011
Summer	Amy Lowell	07/30/2011
more shadow	Priscilla Becker	07/29/2011
I Too Was Loved by Daphne	Judith Baumel	07/28/2011
Purgatorio	Peter Streckfus	07/27/2011
Perceiving is the same as receiving and it is the same as responding.	Brian Teare	07/26/2011
Again a Solstice	Jennifer Chang	07/25/2011
In the Mountains on a Summer Day	Li Bai	07/24/2011
Tempest, Act V, Scene I [Where the bee sucks, there suck I]	William Shakespeare	07/23/2011
Summer Images	John Clare	07/23/2011

Title

Author

Date

Midsummer

07/31/2011