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Ritual

By Emma Miao

girls  perched bayside     shedding
masks onto pebbles.  drag fingers,
lick ripple, splash  dirty off  mishaven
legs.         who made night  turn to wolf?
who thumbed        foam into waves?
they slip,  half-cast in     shallows,
black manes haloing  their bodies.
a mist  settles;  crested reflections
blur        into mosaics. remember
palms pressing        waists.  remember
sighs dancing  on lips. when the
fog  lifts, the girls        are gone.

 

Emma Miao attends high school in Vancouver, BC. Her work appears in Glass: A Journal of Poetry, The Emerson Review, Sine Theta Magazine, Rising Phoenix Review, and Eunoia Review, among others. A Commended Foyle Young Poet 2019, she is a poetry reader for Up the Staircase Quarterly and the co-founder and executive editor of Surging Tide Magazine, a Vancouver-based online literary magazine dedicated to empowering youth voices. She is recognized by the Poetry Society UK and the Poetry Institute of Canada. Tweet her @emmaamiao.

Filed Under: Poetry Tagged With: Summer Poems July 2020

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