Joy Yin
Joy Yin is a Chinese American writer and poet. Her works are either forthcoming or already published in Skipping Stones Magazine, Scifaikuest, Wonton’s Letter, Fluorescent Magazine, Star*Line, and more. She has always loved reading and writing, and in her free time, she likes to curl up and read a good book. Joy is also the founder and EIC of Lacuna Vox, a youth literary magazine.
Instagram: @joyyinm88
'Honey Eyes'
When he kissed me
Honey dripping from his lips
I felt it right then and there
Summer:
Not the season, but the ache of it
Orange peels and burnt sugar
It was spilling into me
An overwhelming wave of
Cloying cinnamon and heady whiskey
It was then that I wondered,
“How could one ever love a boy
Without catching fire?”
Your love stuck to me
Seeping until I couldn’t breathe without choking
My buttered skin glowing
Between intricate catacombs
Your honeyed hands
Glued fingerprints into my sickly sweet ribs
Sticky and golden
Impossible to wash away without dying
I drank you down
Your deadly honey
Even as the sweetness went sour
Until my teeth all rotted and my mind turned muddled
A mess of leaking.