September 23, 2024

By Eric Chang

Stare

The marble house

Stares back into my glass

Until I slip

And fall

And shatter on foreign wood

My father stares at me 

With grayish almonds

Of burning irises

That cut deeper

Than the butcher

And his pork

Which can at least squeal 

Before closing its eyes

Upon the earth

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