No-No Bird
Garrett Kurai
Hide behind the ugly
tree and you might spot
an old Nisei man in black
sweater and dirty shoes
walking up and down
the platform, with his middle
finger freed– an exotic bird,
flying below the radar
and singing a silent song.
Garrett Kurai’s poems are residents of Monolid, Statement: A Journal of the Creative and Critical Arts at CSULA, (Sic) Vice & Verse, and recited in the Radio Poetique series on the PennSound University of Pennsylvania website. A graduate of NYU’s Creative Writing Program, he lives in his hometown of Los Angeles. When not writing poems, he collects a wall of sound and DJs. His music heroes are Robert Wyatt and Rahsaan Roland Kirk.