Sugar dissolves— Particles descend and disappear
A flock of pigeons stirs the dense air
I stir my tea days and years disappear another classmate passed on
She said the teaspoon left in the cup was hot ther-mal con-duc-tivi-ty The class giggled how she touched her earlobe for show
She left two young girls How badly she must have wanted to hold onto her earlobes
In Nanjing, serving tea, a waitress screamed Hot!
While balancing the tray with her left arm Her right index finger and thumb reached for her earlobe
I touch my earlobe to see if it heals and I play as sugar dissolves
Miho Kinnas, a Japanese poet, is a 2012 cohort of the City University of Hong Kong MFA program in Poetry. Her first book of poems, Today, Fish Only is due to be published in mid-2014 from Math Paper Press of Singapore. She now lives in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.
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