M. Cynthia Cheung
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BEFORE WAKING UP
I jump, reckless,
off Mont Blanc. I fly through
overpass guardrails, float
for several lifetimes.
No one ever asked the hawk
how to strike a mirror.
SUPREMACY
I saw you in the news
again. I’m not sorry for the horses
galloping off monuments.
EDIT
My coffin is smaller
than I imagined. It contains
forty white sharks
thrashing through the dark.
Biographical Statement
M. Cynthia Cheung is a physician whose poems can be found in The Baltimore Review, Four Way Review, Pleiades, RHINO, swamp pink, and others. A prior Idyllwild Arts Writers Week fellow, she is a poetry editor for Bear Review and serves as a judge for Baylor College of Medicine’s annual Michael E. DeBakey Medical Student Poetry Award. Find out more at www.mcynthiacheung.com.