Year of the Gilded Pig
By April Lim
“Hands pulsing, demands I eat / myself golden, the gentlest curves of mango, / she still carves me.”
April Lim is a Chinese Cambodian American writer from Houston, TX. She has received fellowships and support from Tin House, The Watering Hole, Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, and elsewhere. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Blueshift Journal, Luna Luna Magazine, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, and elsewhere. She is currently an MFA candidate at Oklahoma State University.
By April Lim
“Hands pulsing, demands I eat / myself golden, the gentlest curves of mango, / she still carves me.”