Hybrida by Tina Chang

Author:Tina Chang
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2019-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

I shall be, for you, the man ascending the cliff

until the steed I ride throws me into the pasture

of the everlasting. If this is blasphemy

let me love the world into fantastic horses,

ride them to a distant country where I drown

in brocade, fragrant vine. If I am captured,

let my kingdom be laced in mega gold.

Let my cage be a godly frame.

go run tell dat, Alexandria Smith

If I am a girl in a traffic of legs, let them be trees.

If I am a mouth, let there be a chorus

of raucous tongues. If I set sail, let it be along a tide

of ribbons ebbing toward the widest America.

Let there be hair, each strand running along a road,

braided, and rebraided until what remains is glory.

Each face I wear leads to another face

and within that a sister. If I could multiply

myself I couldn’t be any more lonely. If you

look carefully, there are many eyes gazing.

I wonder if all of this vigilance adds up

to kindness. I once saw a child on a train sleeping.

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