Mandy Chen

    Shen Wai International School

    Your purple lips

    Two hands trembling like autumn twigs in the wind

    Green veins bulging

    Sockets empty, dark without balls.

    Two hands trembling like autumn twigs in the wind

    Toothless grin

    Sockets empty, dark without balls

    Your eyelashes have fallen.

    Two strings of hair

    Translucent under the sun

    are all that is left in you

    in your moth-eaten tree trunk belly.

    Toothless grin

    Lips like earthquake

    Sagging skin separated from your flesh

    are all that is left of you.

    Your voice is the broken string of a violin

    Electric saw cutting down trees

    Green veins bulging

    Slumberless dreams.

    You draw a sardine breath

    Two hands trembling like autumn twigs in the wind

    Electric saw cutting down trees

    Slumberless dreams.