Kunlun Mountain
Off the highway is green, only green
nurtured by the unknown. The air is
thin and frigid with the taste of bones
which silenced any space for speech.
I keep driving.
Far away a flock of goats, grey as the sky,
wait by the ridge. They look at their herder
who kneels on the grass and rests his hands
on the hazy stomach of their fallen mate.
I keep driving.
The abandoned bleats. The man lights a cigarette
without looking back, and leads his herd disappearing
into the green. Vultures come, crouching. In the prey’s
elongated pupils, through the gaps of dark cloaks is heaven.
I keep driving, until
they are left behind.
Jessica Wang is a Emory University Undergraduate Senior majoring in Film and Playwriting. Storytelling, in any forms and genres, is her passion, but her favorite is definitely film. Born and raised in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, she has a rather diverse and international upbringing and education, which became a recurring theme in many of her works. Other than her involvement in filmmaking, she's also a writer, actor, photographer and dancer. Her many skillset contribute to the variety of her works and connections in both film and theater. Her favorite filmmaker is Wong Kar Wai, whose movies are basically the living embodiment of poetry.
John Cai is a sophomore international student from Shenzhen, China studying Playwriting and German studies at Emory university. He is a playwright, fiction and poetry writer and looks for new ways to express his identity and China in a modem and globalized context.