Sure fine. i want the sun bear to be happy too. the days are always the same amount of too long and there is either too much to do or what there is is not exciting. but of course he’s happy to return to his cubs watch the game and have something to talk about. when the cubs win the world series it’s a great story. cubs grow up because that’s what they do. you shouldn’t look into that still river. the moon will be here soon. if the air doesn’t feel like being wind the sun bear can see himself in the still river. or. he could return home and use his closet mirror. all the advancements are too helpful and present to be noticed. the sun bear’s neck ties are all the wrong shade of green. turn the lights back off. can’t you see the sun bear’s wife is trying to sleep
Okay you got me. i cheated. the last poem was too long. i didn’t think you were paying attention. i am glad you're paying attention. isn’t that what we both want. the sun bear reads books on bear traps so he can feel empowered. the trap expert paid the ghost writer because he likes to be listened to but isn’t good with words. and the ghost writer is on a plane to malaysia. the sun bear isn’t sure what the opposite of a zero sum game is. he hasn’t read the theory. yet. he still believes in the good of it all. he plants the seeds and waits till spring. see there’s been star fruits all along. why bother convincing the sun bear of anything else. there’s a cub being born in the san diego zoo today. we do not choose the definition of home.
Of course there’s a sun bear in birmingham that knows about mars. but everyone seems really happy and he is good at keeping secrets. today the sun bear is searching for land. there’s a marble in his pocket. since this is a poem we get to know this marble is earth and that the bear works as a public relations director for the sun bear space program. this sun bear knows that visuals are more effective than words alone. it is difficult to find seven square miles of open land. sun bears keep secrets from each other. it’s for the best we’re told. yes from a far enough distance the sun bear world is small but it’s best if we don’t think about that. the sun bears come home and kiss each other. then. back to their possibly fulfilling jobs in the morning. all at once this happens on the sun bear plant. many times over. the sun bears eventually fall asleep.
Sean Cho A. is the author of American Home, winner of the Autumn House Press chapbook contest. His work can be found or ignored in Copper Nickel, Prairie Schooner, The Massachusetts Review, Nashville Review, among others. Sean is a graduate of the MFA program at The University of California Irvine and a PhD Student at the University of Cincinnati. He is the Editor in Chief of The Account.
Images of the Space Shuttle docking with Mir in 1995, the International Space Station in 2009, and Astronaut Bruce McCandless on an untethered space walk in 1984. Courtesy NASA.
