Yours Truly 2017 / Cascadia College / Bothell, WA 2017 YT Online Book | Page 67

Light
A light bulb wouldn’t shine
Its broken filament dangling
Dangling in my childhood memory
Mom reached high, her dexterous fingers
Holding the bulb, tilting it this way and that
For what seemed like a long while
Till the broken filament re-touched
The contact point where it was supposed to be
The bulb rescued, the light restored
For another few days, long shadows of us
Danced on the floor happily
As if there wasn’t any future to come inevitably
Xiwen Mai
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