Stephanie Guo

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The semicolon won't let me forget

The semicolon won't let me forget
How the words died

In the small space
Between the pen and the page:
Only a nickel in length
And a penny in width,

And still
I want something
That the wind can never whisk.

Stephanie Guo is seventeen. Her work has previously appeared in Cha Asian Literary Review and is forthcoming in the Camroc Press Review.