[asian]

asian 

         —alienate

         & mystify

         feels like

         but has never been yours speech that could be a poem 

         if written by you

         conduit for reserved for

         for whom does your body make easy 

—american. 











let’s be honest the world is not shaped by your tomato gardens: your good intentions 

the forests grew only when we were not present

they are dying because we are murderers

the sky will turn every color and still 

they will say everything is fine everything is fine 

so

           desecration. of a them that we know is an us. 

From Gospel of Regicide (Noemi Press, 2017) by Eunsong Kim. Copyright © 2017 by Eunsong Kim. Used with the permission of the author.