How Festive the Ambulance by Kim Fu

Author:Kim Fu
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: literary, poetry
ISBN: 9780889710641
Publisher: Harbour Publishing Co. Ltd.
Published: 2016-05-07T00:00:00+00:00

No-Fault Divorce / Winter

Gave a stranger fifty-five cents to ride the last bus

rumbling slowly along the unplowed streets.

He saluted me through the window. I pressed on,

past cars abandoned sideways at the bottom of a hill.

Decorative hedges shorn, branched as coral made of ice.

Street signs pressed in crystal. The city looked wild,

snow stacked haphazardly in the middle of the road,

lost hats and gloves, futile tire tracks. Somewhere,

blankets contoured to bodies, a glimpse of flesh:

glancing light off smothered patio furniture,

indistinct shapes to be dug out or forgotten.

Twenty blocks from home, sky relit by reflection,

I passed under dammed gutters, stalactites glistening.

Home: newly empty bed and sulphurous gas heat,

creak of water pipes almost audible. Cyclical,

inevitable, still no one was prepared. In the wind,

a poignant sting. Such pleasure in our defeat.

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