Fire Alive
What must it feel like
To be burned all along your consciousness
To feel your senses ignite
Like a live wire as your skin
Slowly melts away to its hollow
Recesses, revealing pure white
Bone
Susan Hu is a writer, poet, editor whose works previously appeared in Lumen. She is a self-professed bibliophile and recent graduate from Towson University (with an M.S. in Professional Writing). She posts about her daily obsession with food on Instagram @moody_foodie_ and can be reached via email at [email protected].
Other Works
Roxana Geffen Interview
by Sean Sam
... I wanted to be overt about the peculiarities of WASP culture, instead of treating it as the default unmarked category, to treat it the way an ethnographer would. Growing up I always resisted this idea of excessive ancestor worship ...
Jake Skeets Interview
by Sean Sam
... Poetry can be a way through because poetry asks for intense scrutiny. I feel like poetry is the key to unlocking a depth to English that our society erases ...