Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang: A Poem
Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang
#METOO
"Language is the house with lamplight in its windows / visible
across the fields...."
--Anne Michaels
Language is the house with lamplight in its windows
but the body is a grassy field
filled to the brim with starlight.
Slip among the dark blades --
you are that creature
who is both prey
and predator. Lamplight is
a caged fury. Wouldn't this house
look brilliant on fire,
an imploding
star,
reaching out?
from Grappling Hook (Palimpsest / Anstruther, 2022), by permission