sonnet from a skeleton
CORINE HUANG
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something in the way you pronounce ugly
like it pulls your tongue and wrenches the crosshair of your jaw, drills bone to dust-like this is how you offend me-- dismember me from curdling dendrites burst neon plaque on grey matter and fill my womb with plaster. make me a pulse for the still-stuck void of your hands, flex your lines to caricature of contortion and birth a crater for my chin to rest. bury me in cerulean girlhood-- when i was thirteen and spindly and your mouth made love to an ocean |
Corine Huang is a high school writer from Hong Kong. When she's not writing, she can be found listening to Japanese city pop or obsessing over arthouse films. Her work has been recognized by the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards and is in or forthcoming from Rust + Moth, Eunoia Review, Rising Phoenix Review, and others. She hopes that you're having a wonderful day!