entering a bridge planks to(o) many

All of two mountainsides

First well traversed pagoda resting

Old Korean men walk behind

with hands behind

tiny roses or knots folding against spines

Young Korean men walk aside

hold her purses her bags her hands

Young bench

Strange intercom

Wherever flurries of English, I assume too much

mainly I am being addressed am I being addressed

May I ask where you are from?

There is a beautiful bridge there

Ye, audah yo

I give my mashi toaster to a friend

She tells me about the mountain behind blueville

You climb it and there is the ghost town beyond, you can see it

A wall you cannot scale, a mountain you can climb

But both were hills

Iron nickel bridge, metallic music notes and flower buds welded on

To go over in poppy light some transfusion

Duck under the bridge and meet the red dirt roots, I swear I know myself better in this place

A farm plot protected by one stuffed animal giraffe

Makeshift irrigation for deadened corn crops and rice paddy fields

becoming swampland becoming

Red earth

To make use of the war

Old barrack gardens

A minefield where whole families travel

To make use of the war

A mindfield of barbed wire tied into asterisk risk

Vines sent to coil around new life but the wire remains to remember

Make use of war

And white gloves abound up and down the path

What I imagined was queen anne's lace, picked and fingered

For my grandmother

She will never see such a field and dreams of traveling in it her whole life

Who cares for a failing grandfather

His eyesight passed,

his mind will not let him

breathes

remember my mother or his wife

To make use of a war

His tight embraces are my closest to knowing

She calls to speak with someone normal

and could I take her up the mountainside in my mind?

entering to be festive all

April 12, 2007

I find it is the starlet bell blossoming at the end of the stem and not the head of another person that presents the greatest challenge for me

How say that body language of any car approaching

should I not use the competitive nature of my students to gain their engagement?

I avoid the post office

It is not the language collision I fear but perhaps what really wants to be said between us is the true barrier and we want to say it without words, I mean sounds,

I want to say you white lotus lily atop branchlet
When my eyes first stuck against you the unfettered wick has now split open into onion

How say that capturing of growth?

Yellow powder dust my bare feet
They glide with ease over warming floorboards

It is not the language derision I fear but the absence for want of discovery of barriers

How say that body language of Namdaemun open market laughter

In your tiny patch grassland forest somehow you rebloom after one fall


lotus lilly rising


Sungnyemun gate

White boats floating atop
enduring blades of grass

Japanese cherry trees (Yoshino Cherry slightly fragrant with pink or white flowers---Akebono Cherry soft pink single flowers---Sargent Cherry rich, polished reddish bar---Accolade Cherry semi double petals with a deep rose pink bud opening to blush pink---Mt. Fuji Cherry large white blossoms covering widely spreading branches---Okame Cherry pink, single flowers and fine fall foliage---Rosy Cloud Cherry large double blossoms that are deep pink color---Weeping Cherry dramatic boughs drape to the ground---Autumn Flowering Cherry semi double (10 petal) pink flowers, nearly an inch in diameter---Usuzumi Cherry grown from propogations taken from the 1,400 year-old "usuzumi" tree growing in the village of Neo in Gifu Prefecture, Japan) , meet the Korean Sakura cherry tree

entering karen teacher

karen teacher, i think recommend means to commit yourself

karen teacher, i aviation to my mom for help

karen teacher, my mother knows the meaning of altitude

karen teacher, i deceived a big prize from the teacher because i helped her from getting in a accident

karen teacher, i deceived that boy by leading him to the haunted house when i said i would take him to his mom

karen teacher, i want to chase the fish very much

karen teacher, a kitten eat a mouses

karen teacher, a pronoun is what it is because it was born that way

karen teacher, joy is a baby kangaroo

karen teacher, i was very careful at bear



dear sue, i love that you sneak little stickers on my arm and purr about it all class

dear brian k., thank you for moonwalking back to your chair

dear 2nd graders, thank you to whoever left the blue marble with the white ribbon running across it on the podium. dynamic korea and i stole that marble with ease

dear woo-young, you are quite possibly the funniest student i have, especially when you playfully complain about things like the tip of a marker being furry from use. you say, "i do not like the fur"

dear sung-hee, stop tattle-telling on other students; seriously, it's annoying

dear yeong-sip, your fellow students would like you to stop expectorating when you speak; one student circled the spit on his desk from across the room

dear daniel, thank you for asking me what my position was on the usefulness of locating the object of the prepositional phrase

dear albert, you described yourself as looking like a mouse; you are very mousey when it comes to doing work, but sickeningly cute

dear 1st graders, i had so much fun making origami frogs with you even though you fought over which piece of green paper you wanted