The Solidarity Issue: Poetry Roundup

Each issue we feature written work from Asian womxn around the world. Here are this issue’s pieces:

Too Many Roses by Aria Mallare

Too many roses
Uprooted from the soil 
Sticking out of the ground like a garden of spears
Their stems cut short 
Heads cut off, thorned and sharp
Ready to strike 
Too many roses 
Blossoming into weapons 
Their twisted leaves strangling the trigger 
Too many roses
An ocean of blood red
Sitting on rows of rectangular boxes 
Too many roses
Uprooted from the soil too young 
Cut from life in a temporary beauty 
Too many roses 
Left to wither away