1. The Foggy Morning

  2. I wake up into a
  3. pungent smell pervading like pain the
  4. place, places out of time;
  5. I walk to the window and am breathless to see the
  6. formidable shroud covering the
  7. Revelations of May.

  8. I remember a violent uprising of wild flowers
  9. cracking the mountain.
  10. I remember the savage radiance of the sun
  11. disturbing a lake.
  12. I remember an aeroplane
  13. scratching the unbroken sky.

  14.  All yesterdays are now back in the
  15. formless peace and
  16. lost time shall find its
  17. own fulfillment somewhere beyond the
  18. empty incantation of
  19. Tick-Tock.

  20.  I baptize with dark coffee the
  21. uncradled Month; I
  22. celebrate this opaque
  23. Paradise; I pray
  24. for another
  25. Eternity.

  26. soh-young chung