filipina cast as kneeling animal
By Louie Leyson
“here, words for woman depend / on the body’s proximity / to dusk, which is not the opposite / of light but its refraction.”
Louie Leyson
Louie Leyson is a Filipina poet and UBC graduate who lives on the unceded territory of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. You can find their work in Nat. Brut, ONE journal, and others.