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Monday, January 28, 2013

Poem-A-Day: My Daughter All Yourn by Farid Matuk

 
My Daughter All Yourn
by Farid Matuk
 

will she be closer to the falling away of the gaze of

   things than others?

hands on the water she calls scene setting

hands on the table water over the houses and hills

   swimming

not the ocean or the sea but the frame of time she'll

   tell of

wild happy yeses in her hands

she bites through in rage when rage

comes to her or we do and she's too small a flag

what does our house say? these borrowed things solid

   and whole

fabric lost to her a greasy boy speaks fast at the

   pizza stand

more available to be seen the young in their concerns

amidst the old artifice paint a boat and it will mean

   a dream

put names of your dear ones in it all yourn standing up

these little soft hands she bites through the bright

   white light of summer

shines off sand and vinyl siding itself composed against

   the salt 

 

Copyright © 2013 by Farid Matuk. Used with permission of the author.
Poetry by Matuk

This Isa Nice Neighborhood

Poem-A-Day started as a National Poetry Month program in 2006, delivering daily poems from newly-published poetry titles.

 

Due to popular demand, Poem-A-Day became a year-round program in 2010, featuring original, never-before-published poems by contemporary poets on weekdays, and classic poems on weekends.

 

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January 28, 2013
  
Farid Matuk is the author of This Isa Nice Neighborhood (Letter Machine Editions, 2010) and Is It The King? (Effing Press, 2006). He lives in Dallas, Texas.
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