Love, I am
kintsugi, shards 
and lacquer, I repair
myself 

in gold. I am a mosaic 
Vesuvius cannot  erase. You will
excavate memories like fragments 
preserved

in ash. I am Michelangelo, 
I make stone flow into silk. 
Cut me away 

and I become a monument. 

So hide from this collapse. 
Love,

I am Chauvet Cave, full of art. 
You will miss the way I bent light 
to make hyena and horse dance
when I painted you in red ochre
and swallowed you whole. 

Elena Sunyoung Kang is a poet based in St. Louis, Missouri where she lives with her dog, Remy. Her work has received an honorable mention in Bacopa Literary Review. Find her on Instagram @elena.sunyoung