Tuesday, December 22, 2009

From Hong Kong to Boston, December 19, 2009

Ambitiously bundled
Just off the plane
Blizzard waiting, throwing
Gorgeously threatening wind
Spattered with opaque ice particles
Snow like Julia Child's omelettes
Fluffed by who holds
A handle incessantly moving
Shaking up my life - my skin
Is not used to the fifty degree fahrenheit drop
Not noticing until rosy cheeks last through next dawn

Running in a snowstorm
Better than Buddhist leg-crossing meditation
It is easy to be here
Displacement disappears

Explaining in an hour all
Abstractions - shattered self identity
Forming willfully - no longer a mirrored double
Uncanny expat expectancies, experience -
Taking shape from within
Radiating the labyrinth I've created

I cook dinner for my family
Feeding them a story
They previously only heard by phone.

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