What the White Wall Looked Like as They Prepared to Stitch My Hand at A&E
Press with gauze (a tremor of water)
Release and check (tattered net billowing)
Wipe away blood (flakes of salt)
Press with new gauze (roe pearling under foam)
Left hand, grip chair (fogged bridge over river)
Right hand, be still (waves carving into chalk)
Breathe in (the noon-struck sea)
Breathe out (a line trickling into space)
Samantha Ng (she/her) is a classical archaeology student in London and the Editor-in-Chief of Aôthen Magazine. Her personal work mainly consists of poems about love, music, and temperature. She is from Hong Kong, and is Tsinoy.