The Friday Poem: ‘the dancer’ by Zephyr Zhang
A new poem by Zephyr Zhang.
the dancer
wavy air noodle
flailing at the used car yard
shake shake shaky shake it
my tube bod writhes
cosmic spaghetti on hot asphalt
a flag in a hurricane
waving to strangers in cars
waving at shiny sedans
with a nylon grin
hello hello goodbye
please come again
the wind changes me every second
as I watch you change
every model in the lot
nightfall brings my soft descent
if I am a lure
put me on a string
fly me over an oil slick
thrashing like a caught fish
The Friday Poem is edited by Hera Lindsay Bird. Submissions are now open. Please send up to three poems in a PDF or Word document to info@thespinoff.co.nz
Zephyr Zhang
Zephyr Zhang drives a 2008 white Toyota Vitz. They have performed in the Auckland Theatre Company iteration of Scenes from a Yellow Peril. Zephyr's poetry is published in places like Cordite, Landfall, Starling, Sweet Mammalian and Rapture: An Anthology of Performance Poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand (AUP). You can find links to their work at zephyrzhang.com.
