Again

One-oh-eight

Beads of sweat

Drops in the ocean

Diamonds in the mine

Kilograms to lower

Then lift again

And again

108

[31 December 2018]

Singing

When Leonard sings of

Her sweet little sounds

Does he mean

When she was coming?

When she was going?

Or, in between

when she was singing?

[30 December 2018]

Passing

Beads of sweat

traverse

rolls of fat

Broken incense stick

smoulders

becoming ash

Long before 108

cr-rack !

of Jisu Sunim’s bamboo

[28 December 2018]

Changes

I used to

write about my darkness

then I

wrote about the light

for many years

I fell silent

paralysed by my plight

[27 December 2018]