Poem-a-Day

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^{as Emanuel Morgan}

How terrible to entertain a lunatic!
To keep his earnestness from coming close!

A Madagascar land-crab once
Lifted blue claws at me
And rattled long black eyes
That would have got me
Had I not been gay.

This poem is in the public domain. Published in Poem-a-Day on November 15, 2025, by the Academy of American Poets.

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Meadowlark	David J. Daniels	03/04/2019
Upon the Mountain’s Distant Head	William Cullen Bryant	03/03/2019
Makebelieve	Pádraig Ó Tuama	03/02/2019
High Dangerous	Catherine Pierce	03/01/2019
Petting Zoo	Nicole Homer	02/28/2019
For Rashan Charles	Raymond Antrobus	02/27/2019
Helen Considers Leaving Troy	Jeanann Verlee	02/26/2019
I Never Figured How to Get Free	Donika Kelly	02/25/2019
Love the Light-Giver	Michelangelo Buonarroti	02/24/2019