Midnight Jade
Yung Seoul Kim

1.
Non-sequitur living, please—
             has its uses—She noticed he
 
longed for applause
             in the dinner
 
             party insight
perfectly candied.                       
                                       Verdant
 
neon after-
dinner mint                   
                                       on the mating habits
 
of ducks—She
           
             let’s admit it, did
 
too, longed for the echo.   Lovely
                       
                          longitudes ajut
                          after midnight.  A dark,
 
this cusp of luxe              amid urgent
 
 
2.
                          mind.
 
That’s all.  Ablaze in his warmed—Hands
interrupt the speed of an amber-toned evening
 
ambushed.  He takes her upstairs.
 
                          Glassed walls
are just that. 
                          Glassed once, glassed twice, glassed
 
gone.  Go
 
then go—he told her.  About
             his father
             fifteen years earlier
                                        who said this
to his mother.
                                        Go then, go.
 
He spoke the phrase with great calm and consideration.
 
Mother’s name was Jade
color of deep
                          emerald
 
stone                
where every year cut
 
like a gem.  Both shes
 
3.
remember the son’s precision. 
It dwelled. 
                          The body’s accuracy is what he trusts.
                          He entered
 
feral and lost
                       
and her eyes open
on his amazed instincts

                                                   at early morning light.

//   Advance   //