Corner House Green

I trip the streets
 
 
            last memory, yellow cup.
 
 
Sound for sad goes
 
 
many snaked,   tongue on tongue
 
 
           bad tea-burnt tongue.
 
 
I trip.
 
 
                      Dark room I trip
 
 
tea to tongue, yellow cup       and streets
 
 
snake sad to somewhere sometime
 
 
           somewhere else.
 
 
Bad streets, last memory:       the sound.
 
 
Last memory dark room dark streets
 
 
           I trip sad to somewhere
 
 
tongue for tongue. Sound for bad goes
 
 
else or somewhere       sad-burnt somewhere
 
 
someone’s yellow cup.
 
 
Or else yellow cup       I snake the streets
 
 
           sad snake-sound       for somewhere.
 
 
Sound for sad goes       somewhere I’ve been
 
 
many-tongued.
 
 
                      I trip the sounds.
 
 
I trip
 
 
           last light last memory
 
 
last of what falls down.
 
 
 
 
 

Kat Dixon is the author of two full-length poetry collections – TEMPORARY YES (Artistically Declined Press 2012) and BLACK RACKET OCEAN (89Plus/LUMA Publications 2014) – and the novella HERE/OTHER (Artistically Declined Press 2014). She lives in Seoul and online at www.isthiskatdixon.com.