Act 3/Sonnet #39 There. i gave you back a line after writing one too many. i compared the sun bear to something you knew so you could get delight in a new layer of a thing you already know. you feels a little too hostile. Harm means permanent. the dictionary says this. we have to trust someone. earlier we had a talk about the sun bear having too much trust in the trees. today is the present. we need the chairs so the forest is gone. our sun bear is there. his cubs will overtime lose strength their limbs. the story is still developing. when the sun bear fell off the tree only you and i were there. we are developing the story. fell is that what we are going with. the sun bear. or. the tree? overtime the sun bear’s body will help grow many trees is what we are telling each other. the sun bear returns home from war to many thank yous. or. his mother will quickly hate the word hero.
Act 3/Sonnet #47 It wasn’t a gun so the sun bear doesn’t have to mention it again. those are the terms someone else’s father agreed to. may no one ever have to call your emergency contact on your behalf. can you trust the sun bear? could you trust the sun bear? you can trust the sun but bears are still bears. don’t worry i’ve heard this argument before. two alone sun bears fall in love so they aren’t too lonely. turn the television on there’s important news after the ninth inning. to get attention you say the world is bad or the world is going to be bad if we don’t... the sun bears on the television provide this call to action every night. a starfruit donated to the food pantry out of guilt still tastes like a star fruit. tonight a sun bear that i trust said the world is going to end in a decade or two. the baseball playing sun bears still show up at the ballpark. it smells like spring. yes. spring!
Sean Cho A. is the author of “American Home” (Autumn House 2021) winner of the Autumn House Press chapbook contest. His work can be future found or ignored in Copper Nickel, Pleiades, The Penn Review, The Massachusetts Review, Nashville Review, among others. He is currently an MFA candidate at the University of California Irvine, and will join the PhD program at the University of Cincinnati in the fall. Sean is the Associate Editor of THRUSH Poetry Journal. Find him @phlat_soda.