Thieves of Paradise by Yusef Komunyakaa

Author:Yusef Komunyakaa [Komunyakaa, Yusef]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Poetry
ISBN: 9780819564221
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 1998-03-12T18:30:00+00:00

I step off the path, sinking into one-hundred-years of leaves. Like trapped deer, we face each other. Her hand in his. His blue eyes. Her Vietnamese face. Am I a ghost dreaming myself back to flesh?

I stand in the skin's prison. A bluejay squawks till its ragged song pulls me out into the day burning like a vaporous temple of joss sticks. June roses in beds of mulch and peat moss surround me. I hear her nervous laughter at my back, among the poplars.

I can't hear my footsteps. I stop, turn and gaze at the lovers against an insistent green like stained glass. I walk toward a car parked near the church. Birds sing and flit in the raucous light. I hear the car's automatic locks click, sliding like bullets into the chamber of a gun.

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