September 8, 2014 | Occasus | Issue 4 | Poetry

love song 2

i loved on champlain like i was french
hoping for more wives than none
but preferably, only you.

the truth is, the moon looked lonely that night
so i buttered croissants under piss-eyed streetlamps
and never noticed how my hunched figure imitated
a yield sign, stuttering cars to a stop.

"j-je t'aime."

JOY ZHIQIAN XIANG completed an Honours Specialization in Visual Arts at Western, with a focus on photography, art history/theory, and writing. She is especially interested in memory, performance art, and visceral modes of experience in relation to their form of recording. Immersed in poetry from a young age, she hopes to continue to explore and be inexplicably moved by works of art, on an immediate personal level, as well as intellectual. She is commencing her MA in Art History at York University this fall.