the expression
“the middle of nowhere”
is dangerous
this nowhere
is somewhere
to someone
to something
to the grasses which
have learned so well
how to old onto water
to the birds that
can spot a lizard
from a quarter mile above
to the people who
pass through or
struggle to stay
every nowhere
is a somewhere
do not call a place
nowhere
just because
there are no
shiny buildings
looming
and the only running
water is deep
deep underground
if there is any there
at all
the desert is not nowhere
the forest is not nowhere
no land is nowhere
narinda heng 