Concerning a Crushed Temple
“In her halo of blood, / who knows whether she had time to beg?”
M. Cynthia Cheung
M. Cynthia Cheung is a physician whose poems can be found in The Baltimore Review, Four Way Review, Pleiades, RHINO, swamp pink, SWWIM Everyday, Tupelo Quarterly and others. She is the recipient of an Idyllwild Arts Writers Week Fellowship and serves as a judge for Baylor College of Medicine’s annual Michael E. DeBakey Medical Student Poetry Awards. Find out more at www.mcynthiacheung.com.
The Autobiography of Anne Boleyn
“I dwell inside / the eye of your brain, the word on the page: me, / split for anyone to try.”