What Rough Beast | Poem for October 30, 2017

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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