What Is
or is true as
Happiness
Birth
A pure river
Conditions for the equal good
to be as wise and fortunate
at the start
Lost in the pursuit
Under a white oak
two children sitting back
to back on a plank swing, calling
The hand
that touches the earth
to witness
Presses the metal latch, opens
the screen door out from home
sunlight, pond water silence
damselfly at rest on a frond
Having come with you
this far into the drafty air
Copyright © 2015 by Jeffrey Yang. Used with permission of the author.