do not trespass with perhaps/ do not ponder why the brief critter sheds its days like that/ that

summer is more of a reprieve than trapping home/ that it will try and try and not find the word

for frost/ that it does not know at all that the world can stay colder than fire/ which is torrid/ that

you can even drown in the intolerable light/ in its dreams white is a figment/ & melting is but a

tributary of perishable air/ i will be lost/ i will be impossible/ spent like an envelope singing my

eyes shut/ always forgetting/ always/ this duet a starved type of blue

About the Poet: Leung Rachel Ka Yin is a poet, writer and editor from Hong Kong. She is the winner of the Sir Roger Newdigate Prize, and her work has also been awarded or recognized in the Proverse Poetry Prize, Oxford Brookes International Poetry Competition, Acumen, Out-Spoken Poetry Prize, Poetry London Mentorship Scheme; and has been published in ASH, Cherwell, ORB, Cha, HKFP, HK01 and The Mekong Review, among others. Her debut poetry pamphlet was published with the Hedgehog Poetry Press in March 2020 and she has a second pamphlet forthcoming with Out-Spoken Poetry Press in 2021. She is the Founding Editor of KongPoWriMo and the Founding Administrator of the Subtle Asian Poetry Collective. She has formerly held the positions of Online Fiction Director at the Isis Magazine, Poetry Reader at The Adroit Journal and Poetry Editor at Figure of Speech, TRACK//FOUR and Sandpiper.