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Wesley Kao

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  • Arts & Culture
Wednesday, May 18, 2022 - 19:49

effigy

By Wesley Kao

rounds of hate in scores fired

enter my body as i watch

eight fall,

six of them who look like me —

 

and what can i do but scream silently

from thousands of miles away?

 

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  • Arts & Culture
Tuesday, January 18, 2022 - 10:17

elpis

By Wesley Kao

fleetingly she glimpsed by ---

a backyard hummingbird fluttering,

feeding her hatchlings:

 

spiny, naked little things,

blind and squirmy,

perilously craning,

 

that grew feathers and left

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  • Arts & Culture
Sunday, October 25, 2020 - 12:27

Abscission

By Wesley Kao

This submission won second place in the Synapse Storytelling Contest creative writing category.

 

Child, I

           lay him supine upon the funereal table

viburnum-skinned, blent

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