MAYUMI
After the tohoku earthquake & tsunami
1.
Don’t leave my hand.
My daughter’s palms were soft.
The black houses crushed
a local library and.....us.
2.
Our home is only a broken gate.
I recite Mayumi in front of it.
3.
Her body roams the ocean.
It deserves the sparkling white
bubbles,.....and slowly disappears.
4.
Tonight’s full moon is the brightest in a year.
Happy birthday…
She would be sixteen.
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The first draft on 3/22/2011.
MAYUMI
1.
Don’t leave my hand.
I look into my daughter’s eyes.
The black wave of houses
sweeps into my ribs; cold & heavy…
.....Two men drag me from the stream.
2.
Home is gone
leaving only a broken gate.
The concrete
smashes her blue
bicycle. I wait
for her sitting on the rubble
and recite Mayumi.....like the Buddhist prayer.
3.
A fence covered with tiny
notes about victims
leads to the morgue.
Female, a yellow apron with the crescent and three stars…
She was not in the casket.
4.
Her body
roams the ocean current. Tonight’s full
moon is the brightest in a year. Her body
deserv…
After the tohoku earthquake & tsunami
1.
Don’t leave my hand.
My daughter’s palms were soft.
The black houses crushed
a local library and.....us.
2.
Our home is only a broken gate.
I recite Mayumi in front of it.
3.
Her body roams the ocean.
It deserves the sparkling white
bubbles,.....and slowly disappears.
4.
Tonight’s full moon is the brightest in a year.
Happy birthday…
She would be sixteen.
***
The first draft on 3/22/2011.
MAYUMI
1.
Don’t leave my hand.
I look into my daughter’s eyes.
The black wave of houses
sweeps into my ribs; cold & heavy…
.....Two men drag me from the stream.
2.
Home is gone
leaving only a broken gate.
The concrete
smashes her blue
bicycle. I wait
for her sitting on the rubble
and recite Mayumi.....like the Buddhist prayer.
3.
A fence covered with tiny
notes about victims
leads to the morgue.
Female, a yellow apron with the crescent and three stars…
She was not in the casket.
4.
Her body
roams the ocean current. Tonight’s full
moon is the brightest in a year. Her body
deserv…