Adam Zhou
Inverse
Hands can’t cup
images painted over waves.
Petals of sun,
streams of chrysanthemum.
How quickly they trickle
through my fingers.
Now, an image
I care for. A face:
eyes, nose, lips
and knowing the skin
is of glass,
already shattered.
Adam Zhou’s poetry has appeared in The Rising Phoenix Review and The Kill List Chronicles. In 2017, Zhou won a National Silver Medal for personal essay and memoir from the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards (presented by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers), the longest-running and most prestigious recognition program in the United States for creative teens in grades 7–12. He is a sophomore at the International School Manila.
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