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January 15th, 2026
Under 25 Poetry Magazine Contest #1 – First Place
by Haven Cha
My mother dreamt of barley fields and sensed me bloom inside her walls. Low-hanging moon, slitted eyelid. I, crescent moon, divined to wax into a woman, to fill the farside with silver. A body, like womanhood, is defined by absence. I first kissed a girl at sixteen, her blue head swelling like a bruise. All night, our laps grew heavy with clotting words inherited from our mothers. I opened my clamshell mouth and her name tumbled down my throat, peach pit firm. Fetal fingers, apostrophe toes. Our bloated bodies suckle. A moon waxes like a secret untold. Two moons wax like a secret untold.
About the Poet
Haven Cha resides in Seoul, South Korea.
Read the poet's biography and Under 25 Poetry publications
on Haven Cha's Artist Page.
Under 25 Poetry Collection
This poem is also featured in
Under 25 Poetry Collection #1,
published in the Under 25 Poetry Library.
Keywords: youth, moonlight, revelations, femininity
Previously published in Under 25 Poetry Magazine:
Worlds Unknown
by Yasmin Ali
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