Artwork by: Victor Audi
Then and now: I bend
the classroom door & eat
the clock’s hour hand.
Count to a hundred// Then
inhale yesterday in pebbles
like tiny crab hatchlings
skittering sand to shore,
an orbit of Earth
polished by words. Like
I am here but I am all of my
past, too.// Hexagons &
honey bees (and Edens, and
Babylons) tuck minutes
within China teacups &
pour water like we could
ever last. Then and now//
have you heard about
the Fermi Paradox? Take
my unfastened wrist; we
long for a Giver’s Elsewhere
beyond then & now.
Fifi Wang is a high school junior who enjoys reading fiction in her free time, especially to relieve stress. She believes that literature is a vital fragment of sanity in her life.
