Overseas
Bite through your native tongue
and spit it out on the shore
of a beach you can’t pronounce—
linger speechless
and pledge allegiance
to nowhere,
flag fading like a bleached
bone from your own skeleton.
Ribs are the bars for the cage
around your heart and soon
enough, everywhere becomes
another place to escape.
enough, everywhere becomes
another place to escape.
I love the form of this, a series of directive couplets.
ReplyDelete"a beach you can't pronounce"
"enough, everywhere becomes
another place to escape."
Really loved these, images, line breaks, language, and all.