National Poetry Month!

Today, besides being Thursday which in itself is very exciting, is National Poem in Your Pocket Day! Pick a poem, carry it with you and share it throughout the day with those around you. It’s so exciting to think of people all over the country sharing poems today.

The poem in my pocket is…

Dream Song 4 by John Berryman

Filling her compact & delicious body
with chicken paprika, she glanced at me
twice.
Fainting with interest, I hungered back
and only the fact of her husband & four other people
kept me from springing on her

or falling at her little feet and crying
‘You are the hottest one for years of night
Henry’s dazed eyes
have enjoyed, Brilliance.’ I advanced upon
(despairing) my spumoni. – Sir Bones: is stuffed,
de world, wif feeding girls.

– Black hair, complexion Latin, jeweled eyes
downcast . . .  The slob beside her     feasts . . . What wonders is
she sitting on, over there?
The restaurant buzzes. She might as well be on Mars.
Where did it all go wrong? There ought to be a law against Henry.
– Mr. Bones: there is.

Want more dream songs? Check out John Berryman’s 77 Dream Songs.