those of us flipping through magazines
beer in hand
cutting out paper patches and crutches
drunk-pasting them all over our poetry
fear the scissors might mutiny
and hack off our legs and eyes
while all three dimensions sprout smiles
laugh at our white-knuckles
write fearless and deep
being keen and competent
being blind and lame already
Kenji Haakon Tokawa is an emerging writer and arts-educator in Toronto whose poetry has been published in Rice Paper Magazine, Generations Literary Magazine and Many Mountains Moving Literary Journal. Additional work has appeared at Diaspora Dialogues, Toronto's Mayworks Festival of Working Culture and the Arts 2009, and Pride Toronto's 2009 Proud Voices Literary Stage.
