Arsenic Lobster Poetry Journal Poem

Arsenic Lobster poetry journal	Issue Nine Winter 2005
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Yanagi (tanrenga)
Suzume Shi

Willow astraddle
you, I pump
up your buried rain.
                                                             — me

Earth bone black beneath your trunk,
I raven your naked sky.
                                                             — you

How is it you
hold me, who
would uproot herself & walk?
                                                             — me

Green? Or gray? Your slender blades
let my wind decide.
                                                             — you

& you? You ache
to take me yet again,
even as you wave goodbye.
                                                             — me
I hide my sword
inside my smile.
                                                             — you

About Suzume Shi