Free Fall
Read more poetry from Chiang Yomei in Asia Literary Review Issue 32, Autumn 2016..
We're in free fall
from life to life
From the gallows on Tower Hill
to a palace in Old Cathay
From a bed of jelly plankton
to a dusty ger on the Steppes of Central Asia
Wandering through centuries
each time seemingly made anew
Unaware of the momentum
the singularity of it
all the lives we bring along
Am I dreaming or being dreamt
into this vast stream of imaginings
This is Samsara
an infinite net of unending knots
What a surprise then
that it should be instantly undone
by a burst of clarity –
an ecstatic salutation
in the space
between two thoughts.
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