Jenny Liu
Girl with White Line" by Gisoo Kim
Jenny Liu is a rising second-year student at the University of Toronto. Her poetry has been nationally recognized by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Alexandria Quarterly, Eunoia Review, After the Pause, Watershed Review, The Manhattanville Review, among others.
Seams
i worship upturned stitched corners of flesh.
eyes crinkled to the point of crow’s feet formation.
some days i am the crow.
some days i am the needle weaving in and out of open wounds,
begging for just a gasp of air as it crawls through bloody pathways.
the worm wiggles in someone else’s mouth, and i watch
with bloodshot eyes from my wooden box.
their stomachs must be full of something, i think to myself.
the door is a faraway dream, and my salt-stained bedsheets
rub against the unravelling stitches on my cheeks.
some days i am the stupidest fucking bird ever,
cradling a precious silver needle like treasure,
liquid pouring from flesh corners like sun showers.
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