good friday
this morning
I am going to focus
on the sun
how it paints
the leaves in bright yellow
before it settles
into sky
a chipmunk
just ran by my window
and perched in a tiny bucket of sand
before I could photograph him he was gone
a million baby birds
might have been born this week
because all of the trees outside are singing
have you seen the wildflowers
that have fought their way up through the earth?
the stream is still making its way to the ocean
and will not stop spilling over into
everything
what isn’t beautiful?
it’s good friday
and not good in the way that good means death
not good in the way that good means
let’s kill another prophet
but good because there is still good
on this planet
at least
in the circle
I have made around me here
at least for now
at least this morning
Kai Coggin is a queer Filipino-American poet living in the valley of a small mountain in Hot Springs National Park, AR. She received her B.A. in English, Poetry, and Creative Writing from Texas A&M University. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Assaracus, Lavender Review, Calamus Journal, Blue Heron Review, Yellow Chair Review, and elsewhere.
Kai is the author of two full-length collections, PERISCOPE HEART (Swimming with Elephants, 2014) and WINGSPAN (Golden Dragonfly Press, 2016), as well as a spoken word album called SILHOUETTE (2017). Her poetry has been nominated twice for The Pushcart Prize, as well as Bettering American Poetry 2015, and Best of the Net 2016. www.kaicoggin.com