i seize up like a milk-carton kid
in a paper palace,
palisade-guarded
empty surburbia
inside the dull roar of a glass menagerie
— i am the white canary

Diana Khong is a poet and artist of color. She is currently editor-in-chief of Kerosene Magazine and is on staff at Noble Gas Quarterly and Ascend Magazine. Her work takes on girls, life post-diaspora, and bad dreams. She tweets @deerthrum.