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Wednesday, December 27, 2023
My Mother Teaches Me How to Prepare Fish By Bohan Gao
The Rising Phoenix Review posted: " My Mother Teaches Me How to Prepare Fish I.Yesterday I hand you slicked-back scale, white underbelly, soft and ripening,and you taught me how to hold a body close, sheathe its cruelty, wrap it in devotion. To hold the knife beforethe cut, like a breat" The Rising Phoenix Review
I. Yesterday I hand you slicked-back scale, white underbelly, soft and ripening, and you taught me how to hold a body close, sheathe its cruelty, wrap it in devotion. To hold the knife before the cut, like a breath release and yes, there, do you see?
II. There is no room for loss here, these memories of homeland you've folded like fresh linen and tossed into laundry machines in square apartments, and now they resemble washed-up denim. You promised to never recall our last life, the one where you were the girl with the red mouth open like a blood-moon. But we know memories are only ghosts not yet forgotten. That oath is still on the cutting board, swollen and pink. Still gasping. Still asking to be made whole and kept.
III. Draw breath before the final cut. Prayers slit open like underbelly. Recall its life, you say: flash of scale, glorious sea, and the kiss of sand. This creature does not belong here, trapped beneath my butcher's knife. I am trapped with it. This country was never mine. This water was never this bright, never this cold. How it devours.
IV. Here, the tongues fold over your closing mouth. Pa believes words are the key to assimilation, so we choke on syllables between shifts. He does not know language is a calculus: the sum of its smallest parts. You slice the head clean off.
By Bohan Gao
Biography:
Bohan Gao is a seventeen-year-old Chinese-American writer from North Carolina. She has been recognized for her writing by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers and her work is published in The Enviroactivist, Addanomadd, and Exurbia, among others. Outside of writing, she likes playing soccer, going out with friends, and losing herself in crowded cities.
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