There Are No Metaphors in this Poem; I Am Simply Documenting the Suffering in My Country
How do you report a government to itself?
How do you report a government to itself?
A blast of Granda’s biscuit scent fills my nose
watching the sun bear eat star fruit call it a first date.
Scales like quarters glinted
in the wintry sun
He said an eagle needs the sun on its wings, needs the vastness to learn to fly.
the god is the machine, swooping in to halt the peat
I don’t think I believe in god.
I wrapped you in my arms so we were close
enough to catch the thin light
between our bodies
Everything wants to spring,
to live out its deepest impulses
Although my father doesn’t admit it, his body no longer allows him to work the way he once did.