by Shih-Min, Sun
Ironing stained glasses
scruffy, growth of magnitude soul
of every somber
night comes forth
suspended on this land
flood of
living , gasping
corpses
rise and walk : bend
pick
one shoe up
fold : clothes / string / dirty nails unbuckle
crusted toes with blood, frosted
moon black
eye of the city inflamed
a year
with a year icy mud feathers plank
perishable but closer underneath
*
When
forest call
on each step
streaks
upon walls, walls
birds depart, river sink
to depth of the country, the land all turn into: prayers and songs
the orchard
of life
respirate unceasing
glare now: wide open
scruffy, growth of magnitude soul
of every somber
night comes forth
suspended on this land
flood of
living , gasping
corpses
rise and walk : bend
pick
one shoe up
fold : clothes / string / dirty nails unbuckle
crusted toes with blood, frosted
moon black
eye of the city inflamed
a year
with a year icy mud feathers plank
perishable but closer underneath
*
When
forest call
on each step
streaks
upon walls, walls
birds depart, river sink
to depth of the country, the land all turn into: prayers and songs
the orchard
of life
respirate unceasing
glare now: wide open
Shih-Min, Sun lives and writes in Taipei, Taiwan. Her work has appeared and will be presented in publications including, The Academy of the Heart and Mind, Dadakuku, Rural Fiction Magazine, Wordpeace and has been selected for Atlanta Review 2022 International Poetry Competition in Merit Award. She started writing while working abroad, inspired deeply by family, teachers, and friends. She loves writing as a way to interpret still life and scenes of bond through language. Visit her on Instagram: @aura_a_u_r_a