Poem-A-Day: Dear J. by Kazim Ali

Dear J.  by Kazim Ali      It should be a letter To the man inside I could not become   Dressed in yellow And green, the colors of spring So I could leave death   In its chamber veined With deep ore I've no more to tell you   Last winter I climbed The mountains of Musoorie To hear frozen peals of bell and wire   A silver thread of sound Sky to navel Draws me   like the black strip in a flower's throat meant to guide you in   I lie now in the winter open-petaled beneath Sirius I cereus bloom      Copyright © 2013 by Kazim Ali. Used with permission of the author. About this Poem:   "I was asked by a friend, a poet, what I thought about poetry and to explain why I write poetry. This is the letter I wrote back to him." Kazim Ali Poetry by Ali Sky Ward   Poem-A-Day launched in 2006 and features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends. Browse the Poem-A-Day archive.   Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org. April 24, 2013 Kazim Ali is the author of numerous books of poetry including, most recently, Sky Ward (Wesleyan, 2013). He teaches at Oberlin College and the University of Southern Maine.    Photo Credit: Tina Chang Related Poems Rent by Jane Cooper What the Angels Left by Marie Howe Ars Poetica? by Czeslaw Milosz

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