A poem takes to sky
Sky happened today, in the middle of the black nightWith my gentle radio, sitting crossed at the computer. Sudden patch of sky!Loved it, loved it. It was a stretching of arms over waterIt was a canopy space above my roofIt was arching like a sprout of water!Loved, loved it. It was you laughing, over the wiresIt was white slipping over nightI imagine hawks holding treesTwirling the world slowly in strong talons,Racing pylon cables crashing through the seas.Every word of yours is exclamation, they say, Look! Look!I have never beenHappy before. There are better places. I wanted to pack my things,I wanted the smell of coats, the screeching of wheelsAgainst the tarmac floor; I wanted wings,Wings to soar. I wanted to cut the sky in white lines. TeachingMe new places. There was a smilea mile wide on my face. A swaddled coat with woollen collar over my dusty skin.I'm growing thin, I can hear my heart hammering through the wool.We will one day live off air, just airIn a suitcase.
Judith Huang '09