Monday, January 05, 2009

It's This Way

I stand in the advancing light,
my hands hungry, the world beautiful.

My eyes can't get enough of the trees—
they're so hopeful, so green.


A sunny road runs through the mulberries,
I'm at the window of the prison infirmary.


I can't smell the medicines—
carnations must be blooming nearby.

It's this way:being captured is beside the point,
the point is not to surrender.

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