Mike James: After A Line By Ho Chi Minh

ho chi minh in prison

took to chanting poems

said, what else is there

no mattress, paper blanket

alone in a cell i can

only turn around in

let me pretend i am hiking

near a clear, rock lined stream

once, when i was boy,

i walked from my house to a field

a noisy boy in tall grass

i woke everything there

i startled even the insects

all the birds sang at once

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Copyright 2016 Mike James

— Mike James