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Monday, February 4, 2013

Poem-A-Day: Morning Song by Sawako Nakayasu

Morning Song
by Sawako Nakayasu

 

Every time, these days, it seems, an equation gets

   forced. Forged:

                  far cry
                  ______


                  low rise


                             and every morning sticks, figure A, for    alas, stick figures, it

figures that we awaken in the same rectangle at 

   different points on the time

line, these every days the sum of all our


                                                angles, a beyond-

   complementary rate, exceeding three hundred sixty, 

   then three hundred sixty-five, three

hundred seventy

                 days, and angles, a supersaturated moon. 

   Also it is morning

and I am far

                from and I cry. 


                    The last ditch grows deeper and I stuff the
world into a quadratic of words, for example:

   But-I-love-you.
        Place-in-the-box.         Pass-the-god-damn-butter.
                That's four against three.       

   Far against which cry.

 
Copyright © 2013 by Sawako Nakayasu. Used with permission of the author.

 

Poetry by Nakayasu

Texture Notes

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.

 

Browse the Poem-A-Day archive for selections since 2010. 

February 4, 2013

      

Sawako Nakayasu is a poet and translator, most recently the author of Texture Notes (Letter Machine Editions, 2010).

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