Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Tiger Writing Contest
Sisters II
Another lifetime ago I was nine, and you were red, wrinkled Like a monkey born shrieking. You grew pixie-like, happy to tag along On blue-sky days in the park, Not…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Tiger Writing Contest
Yellow Moon by Eva Lilith Quintos
Yellow Moon The night air feels cold against my skin, Abrupt and firm, Prying open slumbering eyes. Moving away, away from the flickering yellow. Yellow swarms of so many lightning…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Tiger Writing Contest
Black Hole Bypass
Whatever goes in never gets out– objects disappear like water that circles a curved sink round and round draining to gravity so powerful to a curvature so extreme it stretches…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Tiger Writing Contest
my first and last.
the first time i fell in love wasn’t known to me until much later, after the god of time had passed me by. my mind blurred the lines of…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Tiger Writing Contest
Home by K. Wagner
home. home is the warm brown in your eyes, the feeling of your skin upon mine, the dance of your fingers across the bareness of my skin. home is…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Tiger Writing Contest
Loke
Loke Swims Like Ka poʻe Moananuiākea Oceania’s people. Where do they come from? We’re all supposed to be one beeeg ʻohana. That’s what archaeologists say. Transported On the first wave…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Tiger Writing Contest
The Way We Walk
Once, walking through the forest where the Bayan Tree Plaza stands today, I stepped on a branch with a thorn so long and strong it penetrated the sole of my…
Bamboo Shoots Prompt for Year of the Tiger Writing Contest
May 2022 Year of the Tiger Bamboo Shoots Writing Contest
Happy May to all of you. May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. This reminds me of something that we don’t emphasize enough here in the Bamboo Shoots…