Sunrise Kingdom The summer air flattens me like a leaf pressed against a window in a storm. The veins curling, as if extending through the glass; a pin burrowing on a whim into a stranger’s life. The days are wilting. The nights. Diving into a lake to find it has turned into glass, and then to realize it isn’t a lake at all, but a mirror, reflecting my secrets like moths to a wound. My thoughts echo into the crisscross of stars. I can hear my voice, speaking, as if to say what you are looking for is out there, find it. The shivering first breath upon surfacing the water. A flurry of doves into a pair of lungs. A dandelion breaking topsoil. Come fall, it will scatter to the wind, its existence lost in the folds of time. Still, it blooms. As if to say: I will exist, even ephemerally. I yearn for low tide, the sand ridging beneath my toes. The waves, constantly evolving into the same thing. I dream of diving backwards. The unspooling of myth into reality. I dream of swimming in syllables as if I can catch living on my tongue. Catch footprints on the shore at night, knowing they’ll be gone by morning. Emma Miao Emma Miao is a Chinese-Canadian poet from Vancouver, BC. Her poems appear in Cosmonauts Avenue, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, The Emerson Review, Rising Phoenix Review, and Up the Staircase Quarterly, among others. The winner of the F(r)iction Poetry Contest 2020, Emma is a Commended Foyle Young Poet 2019, a COUNTERCLOCK Arts Collective Fellow, and an alumna of the Iowa Young Writers' Studio. Her poetry and piano album, Oscillation, is forthcoming this winter. Find her at emmamiao.weebly.com.
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3/11/2022 01:46:33 pm
A flurry of doves into a pair of lungs. A dandelion breaking topsoil. Come fall, it will scatter to the wind, Thank you for taking the time to write a great post!
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