"ab vulcao" by Márcia Tannure
The Harbor City by Aiden Heung
It must be aluminum
that anchors them down, these buildings,
and plants them firm
into the dark lithosphere, or
have I failed to recognize the force
that tethers me to this place.
Pity the sparrows
that hop on the concrete ground, searching
for frozen things
and air
thickens on stones.
Everywhere the city disguises in festive red
and looks over my shoulder, and looks
into the horizon where the new year glimmers
like fish-belly
on a cutting board. It should be easy
to turn to the next page and start
anew, though there’re things I’ve dreamed of
in this city, like resolution; Still
winter comes to the square, wrapped
in a winter coat. On the river,
water rises black,
I must have courage.
that anchors them down, these buildings,
and plants them firm
into the dark lithosphere, or
have I failed to recognize the force
that tethers me to this place.
Pity the sparrows
that hop on the concrete ground, searching
for frozen things
and air
thickens on stones.
Everywhere the city disguises in festive red
and looks over my shoulder, and looks
into the horizon where the new year glimmers
like fish-belly
on a cutting board. It should be easy
to turn to the next page and start
anew, though there’re things I’ve dreamed of
in this city, like resolution; Still
winter comes to the square, wrapped
in a winter coat. On the river,
water rises black,
I must have courage.
Aiden Heung(He/They) is a Chinese poet born and raised in a Tibetan Autonomous Town. He is the poet-in-residence at swatch art peace hotel Shanghai and also a Varuna Australian National Writers’ House Poetry Master Class Fellow. His words appeared or are forthcoming in The Australian Poetry Journal, Cha, Poet Lore, Rust & Moth, The Southern Humanities Review, Parentheses, and Orison Anthology among many other places. He can be found on twitter @AidenHeung. Visit his website for more information: http://www.aidenheung.com/
Márcia Tannure is a visual artist, born in Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil. She started her artistic practice when studying porcelain painting. Later, she studied observation and artistic design at INAP / MG. She graduated in Social Work from PUC-Minas with a postgraduate degree in art therapy from Projeto Terra / MG. Some years later she moved to Rio de Janeiro / RJ, where she studied Sculpture at the School of Fine Arts of UFRJ. At the visual arts school Parque Lage she studied contemporary art and exhibition design. She currently lives in Niterói / RJ, Brazil, where she develops research in fire arts and has great inspiration from nature. You can find her on instagram: @marciatannure
