Postcard from Japan


      by Steve Klepetar

          As promised, here is a postcard from
          some place exotic. Japan is beautiful

          as they told me. Purple-cream sky
          of cloud, sea on fire, molten brass

          pours from the furnace of sun. Shadow
          figures, brush stroke thin, sail

          the glowing surface black as ash
          beneath knobs of island rock. Here I need

          help to read my water bill.
          Illiterate, I can't make out the words

          for "fish" or "ice" or "flame." Along
          the coast a black skiff taps against

          volcanic outcrop, returns. Its cargo
          blazes, bobbing in the darkening glow.

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