Alex Fang
Arrival
All this time I thought
travel was simply a search
for difference, so I could be
a stranger, impenetrable.
But when the road
divides the terrain into red
and green; inhabited and
uninhabitable, I know
what is sought is in-
difference. The wind
is not exasperated. It
just blows. And again
I am breath-bared
on a piece of earth
that’s not to be enjoyed
the way this apricot is
this morning by
me, here, flesh
loosening from kernel.
I taste it before I
see it. I am stranger
even to myself.
Alex Fang is a lawyer and poet based in Brooklyn. Her work has appeared in Boyfriend Village by Black Warrior Review, Action, Spectacle, Thimble Literary Magazine, and elsewhere.