She-Beast
Canadian International School of Hong Kong, Linny Ng, Poetry: Group 4
Sun and Heat -
father and daughter.
Sun and Earth -
father and son.
Oh fearful Sand, the incest offspring of Heat and Earth
by day - they pounce!
Mocks them, haunts them,
the poor venturers!
These terrible sands, older than time,
younger than fresh fate.
Witnesses of all and every
their favourite is no one but the Biyelgee.
Yes, the Biyelgee.
Only the Biyelgee, heiress of the Skies.
Four vultures towered the sky, circled the sun.
Their shrieks echoed until the world’s edge.
The sun was red,
a naked spirit walked the Gobi.
Once,
the Pied Piper to men,
the reincarnation of Xi Shi
or Yang Guifei or Wang Zhaojun or Diachan.
No, all four-
Now,
transparent.
Defowered,
bathed in shame,
seized of all blood and tears.
Betrayed by the Mongol King, her lion,
her eternal companion,
the one, to whom she surrendered her body, mind and soul.
“Biyelgee,
