Wednesday, March 4, 2009

One Sanyan Fruitstand








"Remeber this moment, boys.


This is the best day of our lives."


I never thought to drop even a moment's


rememberance to that fragrant embrace--




we can smell salty sea and fish,


shucked pineapple husks, and


sunburnt lips grip the tips of some tropic twist.


The store owner, young and olive skin alive,




gives us her only chairs.


We sit, three of us, in some long-held


desire for perfect unity and found


that you learn the sufficiency




of a motor cycle helmet


cruising downt he hainan biway


only after the fall.


And, above, the fireworks sing




their sweet mystery


over the sands--we can dig,


and do, to where these sands


meet the sea: there, in a puddle, we drown.




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