Refuge
In the rain, in her head, an elegy for the not-quite-dead.
Some peonies placed beside her body, supine beneath the canopy of forgotten dreams.
She woke in such a state, such a state that she had to take shelter from the beloved's rain beneath a tree.
It rained so hard she didn't know where she was.
I don’t like being left to myself like this.
From The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us From the Void (Nightboat Books, 2021) by Jackie Wang. Copyright © 2021 Jackie Wang. Used with the permission of Nightboat Books.