☀ Today's Poem: "Another Door to the Moon" Su Cho

Every time I see something cool
and point it out to someone
it sneaks behind a building,
shrinks itself, camera-shy
So I will capture it here—
the perfect crescent of the first
clipped nail stained orange
from peeling tangerines
while we watched TV again,
held each other again, having not
gone outside we wonder
what the moon looks like today
but don't bother peeking out the blinds
because it's always the same
Instead I tell you about a childhood song
about the night sky—how my face is round and big
like the moon but the only Korean word
I can remember is the word for egg,
for daughter, 달걀 and 딸,
when the word is so simple
I forgot about it entirely and instead
think door, which is 문, which yes,
sounds like moon, and I finally whisper
to you 달, and there it is, there's the 달.