"[ Liberate—A Statue / Marble Melted ]" by ShihMin Sun

Feb 12, 2023
1 min read

Poem for my grandma

Liberate—

a statue / marble

melted

ivied-spine / scattered

layers upon layers

jointed waxed skin

smokeless den

She within her childhood

hid behind

woods

one rifle

laid on the ground

age loaded snow

but burnt

over wide / black sand / coraled dune

in a distant far from me

flow…

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