each morning you will cup 
your breast in your hand
then cover it and ride
into the federal city.
      
      if there are no cherry blossoms
      can there be a cherry tree?

you will arrive at the house
of lightning.   even the children there
will glow in the arms of their kin.
 
      where is the light in one leaf
      falling?

you will wait to hear your name,
wish you were a child with kin,
wish some of the men you loved
had loved you.

      what is the splendor of one breast
      on one woman?

you will rise to the machine
if someone should touch you now
his hand would flower.

after, you will stop to feed yourself.
you have always had to feed yourself.

      will i begin to cry?

if you do, you will cry forever.