Death to Us, by Ellen Chang-Richardson

​Death to Us
           for Ydessa Hendeles
 
Squealing,

we

fall
 
metal captures our essence.
 
 
Brass
 
bears
 
witness,
 
 
cold bars lacking substance.
 
 
We
 
exist
 
culled;
 


                           caulescent.


Ellen Chang-Richardson

Ellen Chang-Richardson is an emerging Canadian poet and editor of Taiwanese/Cambodian-Chinese descent. Winner of the 2019 Vallum Award for Poetry, her poems have appeared in Ricepaper, Hart House Review, Bywords.ca, Cypress Press and more. Her debut chapbook Unlucky Fours is now available with Anstruther Press. Ellen is the founder of Little Birds Poetry - a series of editing workshops based in Ottawa & Toronto. Find her on Twitter @ehjchang or at www.ehjchang.com.