issue 6
// poetry
Vertigo
by Yimin Huang
They taught us about tectonic plates
at school, about the
ways they divide the earth,
moving slowly over a searing, viscous layer.
In the past, I’ve heard alarms reverberate
over the quakes caused by the movement
of the plates, but felt only the slight tremors
by my bed, my body
completely safe.
This year,
in the misty morning,
after the wind pounded the glass windows
throughout the night,
I climb down from my bed and
the ground is shifting
beneath my feet.
about the author // Yimin Huang
| Yimin Huang is an MFA graduate from the University of San Francisco and an author and poet. Her short stories have been selected as finalists for Singapore’s Writing The City Showcase 2021 and 2022. Her writings have also been published in Neocha, The Hooghly Review, Expat Living, Hey! Young Writer and Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. She is currently working on a short story collection on the Chinese diaspora. |
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