‘Spring Night’ – Wenyi Xiao

The sky wine drunk, whispering
Funny sounds like fool birds.
Under the lamplight
The scent of my perfume mixed with April flora
The empty lanes paved with footsteps
The playgrounds stare blank into the deep air
My ear against your orange flanneled chest
Heart beats like drops of crystal

About Wenyi Xiao

Wenyi Xiao is an emerging bilingual poet based in Beijing and a graduate student in English Literature at Beijing Foreign Studies University. Her research focuses on feminist poetics, genre studies, and narratology; and her creative writing explores the boundaries of form, language, identity.

Wenyi’s work will be featured in Fresh Words: Voices Unbound—An Anthology of International Poetry.

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