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2008 Sample

The Fourth Secret Love Poem
Arelene Ang

Insect bites are red, sometimes heart-
shaped when the circumstances are right.

I stay outdoors in a flirty skirt,
swing my legs and listen while he talks

about another girl. At night, stars
aren’t always visible. Overhead

clouds disintegrate swiftly like tissue
which absorbed the ink he had spilt

on the teacher’s desk. Some days
I’m still repeating I will be responsible

for my actions in chalk. Wood planks
on his porch creak under our weight.

Wind on my face is her hair
on his pillow after I’ve gone away.
 

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