Transit of Thailand Toyland

Copyright © 2009 Ernest Bloom.

these strange, beautiful engines shimmy and rattle, straining
credulity, while we

stroll time-damaged shorelines, poking forked
driftwood sticks down alien-brained critter holes where
cat eye girls with great big noses rise

from stillwater pools before sweating piles of ancient
temple stones, gnawing patiently on

kentucky-fried chicken bones