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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