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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 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.
