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Printed from https://writing.com/main/books/entry_id/928674-Sansheng-Road-in-Hutoshan-Park-Taoyuan-City-Taiwan
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Rated: 18+ · Book · Contest Entry · #2081410
my entries for the Construct Cup
#928674 added February 9, 2018 at 11:32pm
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Sansheng Road in Hutoshan Park, Taoyuan City, Taiwan
my feet never wander
down the streets of Taiwan
to find an oasis of green
in the middle of Taoyuan City—
but with my fingers
walking, I see it.

trees line the roads,
as tangled as any copse
on the roads I know. it’s bathed
in greens—each leaf a shimmer
of life, caught by a camera wielding
employee of google maps
to come to my eye, years
and millions of wirelengths later.

a manmade cliff of cement towers
above the road, with a sign—
red with white characters.
people hide beyond the fence,
and I wonder why they
stood there, whether they knew
they were being captured
for me to see them, across time.

the road is shaded, and a van
is open on the side of the road
with a red umbrella giving more shade
to protect a little market,

and I see the park
and the people, and the signs
and the cars, and I know—
they are so close to me—
they love and shop and think
about the green of trees
and if they saw me, on some street
in Tennessee, they’d ache,
as I do,
with familiarity.

line count: 36

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