Last night, by Michael Broder

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend October 3, 2014   Last night,   Michael Broder

I dreamt of making sense, parts of speech caught up in sheets and blankets, long strips of fabric wrapped loosely around shoulders, goblets, urns, cups with unmatched saucers. You were there, and the past seemed important, what was said, what was done, feelings felt but maybe not expressed, signs randomly connected yet vital to what comes next, to a coming season, next year’s trip to Nauset Beach. I woke up wanting to read a poem by that name, and I found one with a lifeguard’s chair, a broken shell, gulls watching egrets, home an ocean away.            Copyright © 2014 by Michael Broder. Used with permission of the author. About This Poem   “I wanted the poem to enact the dream it purports to recount. If dreams are wish fulfillment, then this dreamer yearns for some kind of cognitive coherence. The sense the dreamer seeks turns out to be nonsense, and yet poetry finds a way of making it sensible after all.” —Michael Broder   Michael Broder is the author of This Life Now (A Midsummer Night’s Press, 2014). He lives in Brooklyn, New York. Most Recent Book by Broder   This Life Now (A Midsummer Night’s Press, 2014) "Vocabulary" by Jason Schneiderman "Joyride" by Ana Bozicevic "Dear Tiara" by Sean Thomas Dougherty Poem-a-Day   Launched during National Poetry Month in 2006, Poem-a-Day features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends. 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.   You are receiving this e-mail because you elected to subscribe to our mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe, please click here.   © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038