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issue 7: SNOWFALL

views of a crash

SYDNEY TO
​       i.
it ends in a ditch.
a shower of light & gravel,
no sirens on scene.
 
       ii.
this car, this body
twisted together, the thick
smoke inhaled exhaled.
 
       iii.
the lonely side-view
mirror, an eye in the grass,
perhaps useless now.
 
       iv.
the caved-in windshield
encloses me, kisses me,
breathing & breathing.
 
       v.
bent-open half-buried,
steaming beneath a tree.
snow filters through me.

Sydney To is an English PhD candidate at UC Berkeley, with research interests in Asian American literature, transpacific Vietnamese literature, critical refugee studies, and biopolitics. His work has appeared in Asian American Literature: An Encyclopedia for Studies, diaCRITICS and Asian Review of Books.
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