Quipu by Arthur Sze

Author:Arthur Sze [Sze, Arthur]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: American, Asian American, Fiction, Poems, Poetry
ISBN: 9781619321038
Google: TLbYY804e90C
Amazon: 1556592264
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Published: 2005-09-01T23:00:00+00:00

5

In the zero sunlight a man at a traffic light

waving today’s newspaper becomes a man

who, wiping windshields at night in a drizzle

as cars come off the Brooklyn Bridge,

opens his hands. Behind your parked car,

you stoop to peruse a speckled brown egg

on the gravel, glance up to sight a ring-tailed

lemur on a branch. Though no red-winged

blackbirds nest in the cattails this summer,

though someone has tried to drain the pond

into a nearby acequia, there is nothing

to drain, and you nod, curse, laugh —

you have nothing, everything in mind.

When I run my fingers between your fingers,

when we wet river wet through white Embudo water,

the hush is a shocked stillness: a black

bug stretches the skin of water and circles out.

As moonlight slants through the screen door,

I mark the span of our lives suspended

over the undulating scritch scratch of crickets.

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