Y

for yellow, which is


as rich as old soil
from the qingzhang plateau
as long as endless water
from the huanghe river
as appealing as common rapeseed
as smooth as ripe banana skin
as noble as shiny as neon

as full as a tender egg yolk
as bold as the blatant yellow peril



perhaps

By Changming Yuan

By Definition

The Wikipedia entry is wide of the mark. A smart bomb
can’t be anything less than a device that knows a wedding
party from a munitions plant, sees the joyous bride and groom
leading family members in the procession, sees the old people clapping to the reedy flute,
sees the children playing hide and seek among the tables or stealing sweets
and so reverses its downward spiral like a screw flying
backward out of a board at some Home Depot do-it-yourselfer’s touch.


By Bill Harney

Ruins

Disjointed the excavation.
Excavators in ruins now
Need to restore and show why
The bones of statues replaced in restoring
Are worth our effort and our trouble
With our heaps of debris

Disjointed, the excavators
Need to show
The bones
Are worth our trouble

The bones are trouble

Bones trouble

One

O

By Kim Dammers