she wonders if I would love her
were she ugly; ravished in a fire/gored
by wild hounds/broken in half to protect me,
I find myself unable to answer
I know every inch of her & her,
none of me.
Every curve of her shoulders and dip in her ribs. Every
mole on her nose, neck, otherwise
like letters/lines/signs in a diary
of which I peruse with searching eyes and
nothing much else to say
soulmate stories could not
be further from the truth.
I whisper sweet nothings at night, alone in my bed
with against me. She sleeps on.
poem in which my body and I
are toxic lovers.
Selena Zhang is a Chinese American high school student living on the East Coast. Her work has been recognized by the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards and she loves to write poetry to explore her own thoughts, memories, and experiences. She started experimenting with poetry in middle school and it has been a cathartic refuge for her ever since.
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