Yoon Yong dreams.
Napping on a sea wall after midnight
…She steals a trampoline from a trim backyard
—carries it on her back | over
the spinal cord of the Taebaek mountain range
to the edge of the world (all signposted)
—looks out on a sea of shadows
teasing her vulnerabilities into fear
the like of which no one has ever known.
She wants to report it to the world | there is a “suggestions” box |
she brought herself to the brink
of what she can endure
—to tease fear out of life & life out of fear
in her own tense…
This is so cool.
Trying to put people on trampolines at the edge of the world must nudge toward cool, glad to know I have nudged enough.
This is such a beautiful poem. REALLY high quality writing…
Trampolining the imagination has that effect I suppose haha.
It really is. I’m as envious as sh*t!
That’s precisely my reaction to everything you write, glad for a bit of payback haha.
there is a “suggestions” box
What else would there be at the edge of the world!
It’d be full of trash suggestions, possibly becoming a Holiday Nightmares TV show, if Thomas Cook started doing package holidays there, but alas it remains purely a dream, far from their reach.
I think the suggestion box would have at least one request to move the trampoline(s) a couple of feet further back from the edge… but isn’t Life just a world-edge trampoline… we twist and fly upon the canvas and soon are seen no more (exit stage underneath!)?
But then again if you are going to take a trampoline to the edge of the world, you might as well see how close you can get it.
Indeed!