As cicadas fall to the ground
on their backs
The remnants of summer
cling to your hair
And the sight of you
fades away
With the wane of
the moon
I want to dip my feet
into the crash of the waves
Because despite us being
under the same sky
It is the bygone summer sea
that dissipated the memories
Of the stars
in your auburn eyes
– the typhoon
in the
early autumn
is
my agony of longing.
Liu Yuniang (they/them) is a Chinese-Indonesian student, poet, and writer currently based in Tokyo. They like to read queer literature, take walks in small alleys, and write about strange things in hopes that something cool happens in the small neighborhood they live in where nothing ever happens.