P oetry R epair S hop (1999.08: 096)
- CONTEMPORARY INTERNATIONAL POETRY
- by new, emerging, and established poets

CHEN FENG NG
A Speck of Dust

There's something in my eye I
can't see clearly now someone's
shaking me the world's jumping
up and down I don't know what's
going on see-saw margery-daw.

Blink away that speck of dust
no that doesn't work it's
still in my eye obscuring
my vision someone's talking
pouring words into my ears.

Rub my eye and now it's
red and swollen but I still
can't see I hear words but they
make no sense because they
dance into my ears and die.

I cry the speck of dust slips
out with my tear and streams
down my cheek and falls
to the ground and disappears
and now finally I can see.

Poem copyright 1999; all rights reserved. (If you desire a copy of this poem, please contact the AUTHOR).