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WILLOW KANG

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Motions in the Deep

Willow Kang

What of the swallows abandoned

in a changeling’s nest, of 

buffaloes running through shifting tides, of

cities that rise and fall as mortals do? 

We sift through fine grains of starstuff,

lullabies dropped by the lunar huntress

wise to loss 

& countless desolations of the heart 

In the earth’s primordial abode, 

a baby wails for blood to be found

pulled by planets & thumping 

under the undulating scales 

of an old dragon. Above that clamor,

we are silent, gazing through raven eyes

watching the woodlands spiral & morph

Salix Babylonica

Willow Kang

I would tell you about matters of the moon:

the celestial ballrooms and the dances that

play on above us. How the fair lady frolics

with her colony of rabbits. If you let the

night breeze sway, it would carry to you

sparklers that fall like meteorites, memories

of fireworks from those lunar parties. 

At dawn, let the dew linger on your bones,

eroding your bark-

but on the riverbank, no wolf hunters will come.

All these concluded at dawn, before a dazzling sun

can eclipse the broken paths at your feet

and the laborers revive in a caffeined frenzy,

leaving you in the quiet of daylight’s solace

Willow Kang is a writer from Singapore. After school, you can find her reading thick history textbooks, aimlessly writing poems, and solving frustrating math problems, in a futile attempt to conquer boredom. Just make sure that her coffee bowl stays full.

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