The
Birth
It
was the time
of
the golden rain showers
lemon
yellow flowers
hung
in racemes—
each
with a lime green
elongated
young fruit in its center
half
moon
nail
shell
the
time of the New Year
swaying
in the wind.
She-Monkey’s
celestial father
sent
down a golden shower
impregnating
her mother
Paddy
Bird on a branch
feet
in the air.
She-Monkey
is born
out
of a lotus blossom
moored
in
mud.
She-Monkey’s
umbilical cord
shrivelled
and dry
like
beef jerky is
buried
under a tree
flower
of green essence
near
a well
in
Kamayut.
The
scent envelops the scribe
even
as he writes.
Copyright K.M.Kaung
