Mayalu Press

Leave somewhere behind

“Every time you go somewhere you leave somewhere behind” –Mal Blum

One day I will leave this place
and it’ll come back to me,
from somewhere
I can’t see: the ocean
I glimpsed sometimes, the mountains
so far away as to be blue
the coldness I imagined
in the words, the buildings, the harbors,
the relentless green,
the cherry blossoms
which bloom pleadingly
the ones I love so tightly
and on borrowed time

I could not imagine myself here
but here I am,
and there I will be,
collecting things
by losing them

— Juni Kieri

— Ekoro Tamang