Nine of Swords

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by Mickee Cheung

the crumbling stone on
the worn slope descends creaks slips
Sisyphus ebbs one
more time. tomorrow we will
get a shipment of more time.

Mickee Cheung (she/her) studies Creative Writing at the University of Washington, where she serves as Managing Editor of Bricolage Literary and Visual Arts Journal. The 2018 undergraduate recipient of the Joan Grayston Prize for Poetry, an intern at Wave Books, and an assistant at Hugo House, Mickee also runs a bookstagram.