Read in the London tube (Young poets on the Underground)

If a boy must wonder


If a boy must wonder,
let him recall
not the lightning grace of falcons
the dizzying aeronautics, Darwin's finch,
the voyage of the ancients
who saw farther, whose charts and sails
and bubbly telescope minds
brought ashore hope
to lift
a charioting god to the moon
but how
even a rogue dream of stars
once birthed the possibility of flight.


Leon Yuchin Lau.

A name to remember.