One opens her right hand with her left hand
and creates in the dark a storm inside herself.
One leaves the public place,
crying in crop fields.
“My stomach is bursting with bloated grains!”
One is touched by her own gynecologic disease.
The rotten cells are always younger than her,
and better articulate than she is.
About the author:
Su Ci Ci is a poet and the author of the collection of nouvelle and short stories The Ninth Night and the essay anthology The One Person Hospital. Her works appear in various major Chinese literature magazines and anthologies. She has won a number of