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Unearthing

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​Unearthing

by Helena Kim

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​​Rain falls gently 
                                    on the parched plants:
mint, jade, rosemary, caladium.
                                    Not the usual winter
here on the northern tip of the Big Island
                                    where wind blows through
and rain marches horizontally across the fields
                                    all season.


This year only one wild ferocious windstorm
                                     passed by unearthing my deepest
longing as spring approaches.


Out on the ocean whales
                                     jump and breach,
spout and glide into the glistening sunset, 
                                     their every desire quenched,
free in our vast ocean,
                                     utterly themselves.


I turn my longings like a faceted diamond,
                                     look at every side:
how to let my heart touch
                                     the lush green and cobalt blue,
how to change the stretch of scars
                                      into an offering of kindness,
how to let someone near me
                                      without the familiar walls,
how to behold the shadow in me
                                      in another.



The magenta orchid is 
                                       luminous in silvery rain
its petals ever so gently opening and facing the light
                                       faithfully, in beauty.

                

HELENA KIM.    Helena is both a poet and fiction writer.  Her poetry has been published recently in Noyo River Review and Quills Edge Press Anthology.  Her novel, The Long Season of Rain (under Helen Kim) was nominated for National Book Award in Juvenile literature and was translated into seven languages for both adults and young adults.  She is a recipient of New Jersey State Council on the Arts grants and residencies at MacDowell Colony, Hedgebrook Women Writers’ Retreat and Uross Foundation. 
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