Calisthenics, Week 4

When we go to Asia i will stop dreaming
about molars and cuspids that fall out.

When we go to Asia I will wear the body
of a tiger and the head of a mountain top.

When we go to Asia you will find your feet
can't define the ground, that dirt is only

what you knew yesterday. When we go to Asia
we will die as elephants and be reborn

as the coarse split haris on a coconut.
When we go to Asia all that is unfolded

will crease itself into tiny triangles
and fill a pond like Koi fins.

We will go to Asia, we will be the children
of carpenters and learn to hammer the door

shut on the grass hut of prayer.
When we go to Asia the year is 1950

and the first manniquin will speak.
When we go to Asia we will file

into the sacred room and give up speech,
when we put your mother's heart in the other hand.

This will then be Asia.