Get Away from It All
Go, go, I breathe the air
flossed with silence
moving me to melt
into any form what
choice when they
finish your thought
did you mean numerous no
numinous
when minds flood into minds
yet one creed molds
this town of giant convenience
a white church
of blond wooden pews burning
a dark pile of something
enough these terrors,
clarity, empathy, please
drop me onto a quiet coast
dotted with sandpipers
the horizon hyphenates
are they UN forces no
they are nudist bathers.
They have beached.
Dashed with amorous wet,
they call out like walruses,
these loafing rebels against
the enhanced,
I see too much
yet go, go into the unknown,
smell the salt, rancid
scent of water, seagull,
blades of grass and listen,
the one with the sodden beard says
undrape yourself,
you are not guilty to me.
Cathy Park Hong
Engine Empire
W. W. Norton
Copyright © 2012 by Cathy Park Hong
All rights reserved.
Reproduced by Poetry Daily with permission