on the way home

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Ed Go publications in 2022

Two poems in riksha: ASIAN AMERICAN CREATIVE ARTS IN ACTION

“my father’s beer glass“

“ua mau ke ea o ka aina i ka pono”

Poem in the great weather for MEDIA anthology Arriving at a Shoreline      

“bubblegum sonata #24”  

Poem in TAB: The Journal of Poetry & Poetics

“an essence always is lost in translation”

Five poems in Blue as an Orange    

“you gave me a blue, part II”

“i carved my name in her face”

“off the coast of mactan on the trinidad”

“couple questions theometry”

“cosmic conundrum”                                                          

botánick

  • Midway upon the journey of our life / I found myself within a forest dark, / For the straightforward pathway had been lost.
  • Ah me! how hard a thing it is to say / What was this forest savage, rough, and stern, / Which in the very thought renews the fear.
  • So bitter is it, death is little more; / But of the good to treat, which there I found, / Speak will I of the other things I saw there.
  • I cannot well repeat how there I entered, / So full was I of slumber at the moment / In which I had abandoned the true way.
  • But after I had reached a mountain’s foot, / At that point where the valley terminated, / Which had with consternation pierced my heart,
  • Upward I looked, and I beheld its shoulders, / Vested already with that planet’s rays / Which leadeth others right by every road.
  • Then was the fear a little quieted / That in my heart’s lake had endured throughout / The night, which I had passed so piteously.
  • And even as he, who, with distressful breath, / Forth issued from the sea upon the shore, / Turns to the water perilous and gazes;
  • So did my soul, that still was fleeing onward, / Turn itself back to re-behold the pass / Which never yet a living person left.
  • After my weary body I had rested, / The way resumed I on the desert slope, So that the firm foot ever was the lower.