New Year's Eve Day with Kirsten Chen's Poetry
Poetry at Ephemera (December Issue)
Dear Writers,
We invite you to spend some time this New Year’s Eve Day with our December Poet Kirsten Shuying Chen!
Click through to her dedicate post on our Substack to read her Artist Statemen, Writer Bio, and for her poems!
Here’s Chen’s poem “Angles” out with our Dec.4 Issue:
The radiator starts like a thought in the night refusing
to be unheard. I am constantly drawn to old distractions.
When steam meets water. When foot meets floor.
How one sound is always slamming into another & the ease
in which these disturbances take hold. The glint of your
heartbeat renders me still for one perfect moment—
then leaves! My mouth full of adagio strings.
My basil and thyme cry hard at the window.
The orchestra of energies it must take just to wake
peaceful in a bright room. I seek the sacred of each season,
trap what I can. Every day like a treasure
hunt, every night to be named.
Read the rest here!
Merci. Danke. Kiitos. 고마워 Go-ma-wo. Cảm ơn. Xiè xiè.
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