.: Arlene Ang in Rougarou

Monday, 15 November 2010

Arlene Ang in Rougarou

Arlene Ang's poem "After the Flood" is now published in the Fall 2010 issue of Rougarou: An Online Literary Journal. Read the poem here.

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Arlene Ang's poetry was published in issue #1 of Cha.

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1 comment:

Yamabuki16 November 2010 at 03:00
Arlene Ang's poem
"After the Flood"
Is an undead story
Like Zombies
Or Vampires
Of Werewolves

Rougarou is the journal's name
Rougarou is also the same as
loup garou, the wolf monsters
Who wander bayous at night

Yet unlike ghost stories
That seek to scare,
We are shown death poetically
"Underground,
the infinite dance of soil
around moving insects,
the star-nosed moles
that played our bodies
like pianos"
The dance of death
With the music
Played by moles
On our bodies

A dance macabre
That somehow reanimates
Without reviving
the Dead seeking life
"We travel from town to town
in search of what we’ve lost:
blood, family, hunger, a heartbeat.
Like the living, we cannot let go"

Can you not feel the anguish
The longing for what was lost
Can you not feel the fear
Children must feel as well
When walking the bayous at night
Knowing what's waiting for them
In the humid, stalking darkness

For finally how are we the living
To know how to relate to the dead
Who have disappeared into the waters
That can swallow us into their depths

yamabuki
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