Woof Woof
She came growling at me like a wolf,
muttering moonlight out of her throat
and blood is the future in my skin.
No more good girl. She kept moving
in her frightened threats, unstable pain
swallowed in an unspeakable way.
Like me with my quivering tail. Like me.
Kexin Huang (She/her) won a poetry prize of over 1,000 GBP awarded by The Chinese Writers Association, prizes awarded by The Poetry Society and is shortlisted for The Bridport Prize. Her poetry pamphlet, Unlock, is published by Veer Books.