Today’s bonus is a wonderful poem by Alexa Selph that appeared on the Poetry Foundation website. Asakiyume sent it to me.
By Alexa Selph
“Adjectives continue
“their downward spiral,
“with adverbs likely to follow.
“Wisdom, grace, and beauty
“can be had three for a dollar,
“as they head for a recession.
“Diaphanous, filigree,
pearlescent, and love
“are now available
“at wholesale prices.
“Verbs are still blue-chip investments,
“but not many are willing to sell. …”
Please read the whole, delicious thing here.
“Alexa Selph, a freelance editor in Atlanta,” says the Poetry Foundation website, “teaches a class called ‘The Pleasure of Reading Poetry’ as part of the adult education program at Emory University. She has contributed poems to Georgia State University Review, Habersham Review, and Blue Mesa.”
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A lovely bonus! Thank you🙂
I love how the poet heard other meanings in the financial jargon. Asakiyume said she was reminded of a haiku I wrote in the ’90s after she described a dream she’d had about the moon. We were working at a business magazine at the time, and I wrote that “the moon was trending downward.”