LOCUST

Place your hand on inches of land
Hover black over an atlas map.

While winds bend grasses back
Durian fruits fall across Vietnam.

Hatching has occurred near the delta
Where rains fall through the night.

Banks of cloud hail swarms
Of locusts, black arrow down. This,

This is some other sky
Where white ants burrow

In conical mounds as salty
As the Cu Chi tunnels are orderly.