Miho Kinnas – two poems

Miho Kinnas was re-transplanted from Shanghai to Carolina. She struggles with non-metric units but is beginning to carry on with writerly activities.

Her poetry collection Today Fish Only was published by Math Paper Press in 2015, and her work also appears in The Classical Gardens of Shanghai (HKU Press 2016) and Quixoteca: Poems East of La Mancha (Chameleon Press 2016). Her translations have been published in Star*Line (2015) and Equatorial Calm (2016)

Seeing an Old Friend in Kyoto

Wind turns

The scent is

Andromeda

Two pebbles

expand

the white ocean

Thirty years

not wasted

Thirty years

~

Afternoon Yellow

To counterbalance

a kettle and a sponge

ex-lovers stand by

A story is

the notations

in the margin

Fill the glass

let water overflow

braid with light

Must practice

studying you

quickly

I examine

the relationships

by rotating my notebook

I coat the sky

yellow ocre, much white

and a touch of black