Dark blacks, blues, navies
Harshly scribbled
on blank canvas
Careful, skillful hands
doting here and there,
slowly ambling along
A few stragglers
join the palette:
pink and swampy green,
purple lilac,
mossy brown,
cerulean blue.
The man’s silhouette
mirrors that of a ghoul
with patchwork skin tones
like wispy sunset clouds
Slowly, gradually,
lilac bleeds into blue
green blends with brown
Those patches are sewn together
not as tight neighbors
but overlapping, criss-crossing
They mold into peachy skin
and apple-tinted lips,
framed by chestnut strands.
Little by little,
the ghoulish man becomes
a little more human.
Angel Liang is a rising junior at Sharon High School in Massachusetts. She enjoys writing poetry that speaks to her passions in mental health, feminism, and AAPI equity. In her free time, she spends time volunteering at the local Chinese school and playing video games! If you would like to submit writing for our newsmagazine or literary magazine, you can do so here.