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Midnight and You’re Still Walking

By Spencer Chang

 

for the brother/sister I never met

 

as always, Ma kneels by her bed

and offers a prayer to dawn, slipping

through the curtains the way millions

of babies crawl into her dreams at night.

 

pray harder, my mother opens her chest

to the sky, always waiting for two hands

to dig through the clouds and press

her lost life      right back into her.

 

you were all we expected, not the car

that crashed into ours, not Pa telling us

to stay inside, not Ma hunched over

on the side holding her stomach, not you

 

bleeding out of her. I still see your footprints

everywhere, the lonely crib that swings by the window,

the sea of red you drowned in, your name’s etched into

the walls of this empty not empty not empty    house.

 

Spencer Chang is a high school junior from Taipei, Taiwan. In his spare time, Spencer enjoys reading, dancing in his bedroom, and dreaming about traveling the world.

Filed Under: Poetry Tagged With: Winter Poems 2020

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