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Hiding from Monsters
by Angela Yuriko Smith

I want to be the giant
towering over a cracked land
with splintered fingernails collecting stardust
and cumulus in my cuticles.

I want to be a titan
treading on parched earth
with no concern or care for tiny man
as I salt crops with my sweat.

I would tame Leviathan
and together swim the deep
slipping into the ever dark
and stirring volcanoes to life.

I would rather be a monster
—unfeeling, unaware—
then my soft, mortal self
salting only my smiles with tears.
How do I harden a bleeding heart?

Instead, I am here
tripping over the fragmented world
watching a spinning compass…
too small to pull down the heavens
too big to hide from monsters.

Fiction © Copyright Angela Yuriko Smith
Image courtesy of Pixabay.com

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