Maggie Yang (15)
Her Lost Village
splinters her weathered skin, plums rotten
under the scalding yellow heat. Colors stirring
into sewers, glowing of tattered silks. Sweetness eroding into bones,
chrysanthemums dormant in her veins.
As gabled roofs curl into ropes suffocating nature, withering the seeds
she planted there, her hands limp as they dig into the dirt
beneath concrete. Once cupped with life, chopsticks of a foreign language
fractured, strands that fork
into different continents.
The Yangtze river spilling into roots, looming
over decayed families beneath running engines. Fragments
of porcelain bowls spilling spoiled plums, sour
yet sweet, proverbs buried in the dirt.
Maggie Yang is a 15-year-old poet and artist from Canada. Her work has been recognized by the Scholastics Art and Writing Awards and Poetry in Voice and appears in Polyphony Lit, The Incandescent Review, Surging Tide Mag, Teen Ink, among others. Aside from writing, you can find her competing in ultimate frisbee or reading.
Her Lost Village
splinters her weathered skin, plums rotten
under the scalding yellow heat. Colors stirring
into sewers, glowing of tattered silks. Sweetness eroding into bones,
chrysanthemums dormant in her veins.
As gabled roofs curl into ropes suffocating nature, withering the seeds
she planted there, her hands limp as they dig into the dirt
beneath concrete. Once cupped with life, chopsticks of a foreign language
fractured, strands that fork
into different continents.
The Yangtze river spilling into roots, looming
over decayed families beneath running engines. Fragments
of porcelain bowls spilling spoiled plums, sour
yet sweet, proverbs buried in the dirt.
Maggie Yang is a 15-year-old poet and artist from Canada. Her work has been recognized by the Scholastics Art and Writing Awards and Poetry in Voice and appears in Polyphony Lit, The Incandescent Review, Surging Tide Mag, Teen Ink, among others. Aside from writing, you can find her competing in ultimate frisbee or reading.
