Rainy Road Found Poem (RRFP) is a series of mysterious texts that I find in the gutter on my way home from office.
Curiously, I am more likely to find more of them during rain or at midnight.

Rainy Road Found Poem (RRFP) is a series of mysterious texts that I find in the gutter on my way home from office.
Curiously, I am more likely to find more of them during rain or at midnight.

What’s left is long buried:
Roots in the dark,
stories dissolving—
pressure in every vesicle,
between the soil
and all the sky reachable.
They were the stage,
the actor,
the playwright.
A barren terrace
slowly grows its cover;
shuffling sunshine
weaves the shape.
What’s left is long buried:
lumber from the hill—
to build,
for fuel,
material ideal.
I pray
to the storm,
to the fire.
I pray
to the axe,
to the hand,
to the eyes.
Be kind
to the souls of a giant,
to the bones of time.
Berkeley,
March 2018
Not yet time for farewell,
our tale I cannot foretell.
Wreathed,
my resolution,
dreaming of words I’d spelt.
Why can’t I speak?
why do the words flee my mouth?
“Please come,
be by my side⋯”
Silently,
I screamed, wary;
Unexpected,
When I see you do,
I breathe, fearless.
Edit: In January 2018, I briefly visited UCLA Physics’s Galactic Center Group in person, and their work served as part of the inspiration of this piece. I used to play with Kepler 2-body systems for fun, and figured that they are fairly meaningful representations of relationships (they are not as complicated).
Otherwise, let’s go for the old hashtag.
# Stay in Friendzone #