Brilliant Juice by Todd Colby

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend June 28, 2016   Brilliant Juice   Todd Colby

It is the people who remember, but when the people are gone we won’t have anyone to remember. People go to a lot of trouble to make things memorable. I would like to make things enjoyable by watching everyone, and wondering what is going on. Today I am as full of this day as the air in this apartment is full of particulate matter that sparkles off the highway. A sliver of the moon is still visible at midday. Reading the news is unbearable, but necessary. All exits are final and all that.            Copyright © 2016 Todd Colby. Used with permission of the author. About This Poem   “Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about the end of the world, a subject I suspect many of us have been pondering of late. It was scary to realize as a kid that if the world ended there would be no one and nothing to remember. Since then, I’ve always tried to be in the world as much as humanly possible, even when I’m not.” —Todd Colby   Todd Colby is the author of Splash State (The Song Cave, 2014). He lives in Brooklyn, New York. Poetry by Colby   Splash State (The Song Cave, 2014)    "A Sunset" by Ari Banias "The Second Coming" by W. B. Yeats "A Song on the End of the World" by Czeslaw Milosz Poem-a-Day   Launched during National Poetry Month in 2006, Poem-a-Day features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends.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