Daily Poem: The Star-Spangled Turban ~ Amit Majmudar
The Star-Spangled Turban
~ Amit Majmudar
Hot pink frosting
on my chocolate-
cupcake noggin,
switched-on lightbulb-
yellow, tulip-
bulb top-heavy
orange, sky-blue,
bruise-blue, navy
thought cloud, darkening:
Any towel,
any shawl will
serve as well to
bind this open
wound atop me,
mark me off as
not quite level-
headed, tops on
any watchlist.
It’s Old Glory
that I choose this
time: I pleat her,
sweep her, set her
on my head as
reverently as
any U.S.
M.C. honor
guard triangle
on a coffin.
