Spring Arrival in Busan
Spring Walking Blues
azaleas blown up by the white new day
lead to the crossroads of protoplastic pansies
that point to 8 different directions at the same time
to the street of styroboxes of cheap blood-red
berries covered with yesterday’s headlines
to the streets of would-be rose arbors & elegies
& garbage bag pigeons & chairs tied to trees
to the street where everything is broken especially
English
to the street where the wizard wears a boy’s mask
behind a lamppost dodging grocery stares careful
not to spill the secret of seeds
to the street where a singular beggar passed out
crawling in the middle of a street musician's
azaleas blown up by the white new day
lead to the crossroads of protoplastic pansies
that point to 8 different directions at the same time
to the street of styroboxes of cheap blood-red
berries covered with yesterday’s headlines
to the streets of would-be rose arbors & elegies
& garbage bag pigeons & chairs tied to trees
to the street where everything is broken especially
English
to the street where the wizard wears a boy’s mask
behind a lamppost dodging grocery stares careful
not to spill the secret of seeds
to the street where a singular beggar passed out
crawling in the middle of a street musician's
pipe note kissing the cold & ancient blacktop
of piss & spit & footprints of the lost looking
for the king’s tomb
to the streets where a pagoda can be spotted on top
of a mountain but too far for one to make out its bells
rang by mists
down to the street where the blue notes of a bum
saxophone stagger outside the museum of shadows
down down the bridge to driftsongs stream
(South Gyeongsang Province)
to the streets where a pagoda can be spotted on top
of a mountain but too far for one to make out its bells
rang by mists
down to the street where the blue notes of a bum
saxophone stagger outside the museum of shadows
down down the bridge to driftsongs stream
(South Gyeongsang Province)
Stonehead Blues
nest on a roadside tree
way bigger than my skull
Too Beat
old bum humming on a park bench
too beat to turn into some bird today
Beat, too
mist park spring chill
vendo coffee bench dew
Ancient Spider
there’s an ancient spider without a label
in the national museum men’s toilet
Motel TV
surfing motel tv channels for cable porn
ending up hooked on a show about mushrooms
Spring Clean
if only getting rid of the gloom is as easy
as beating bed linen dust over a balcony
(Seoul and Gimhae City)
nest on a roadside tree
way bigger than my skull
Too Beat
old bum humming on a park bench
too beat to turn into some bird today
Beat, too
mist park spring chill
vendo coffee bench dew
Ancient Spider
there’s an ancient spider without a label
in the national museum men’s toilet
Motel TV
surfing motel tv channels for cable porn
ending up hooked on a show about mushrooms
Spring Clean
if only getting rid of the gloom is as easy
as beating bed linen dust over a balcony
(Seoul and Gimhae City)
PHOTO: Original, A Street Corner in Busan, by the author
(Photoshop manipulation by the editor)
