ANDA ZENG is a poet, songwriter, and editor living in Toronto. She is working on her first EP. You can watch it take shape on SoundCloud or Instagram @andakidou.
Four Beauties can be found in Augur Magazine Issue 1.2.
Four Beauties
by Anda Zeng
FOUR BEAUTIES
by Anda Zeng
漂亮 (piào liang) / pretty
漂 (piào) drift / fall through / come to nothing
having husked my limbs light
body floating through an iris
a glimmer only, swimming
silent as jawbone slimmed in acid
hung on my doorframe
as shiny fish hook in eyelid
moonlight sliver
ringing, threaded through stars
as rosebud muscle vivisection
limp and gasping in a teacup
gutted nine-tailed fox
suspended in a lucid dream
a white moth sighs out of her chest
as oblivion, a blood-bloom brained
poppy whisper-sings to herself,
have you seen my mouth?
within, four great beauties
and one rolling head
i feel sick until you speak me
finest sound to my ear
