Sisters

'What happens if we choose that career; house; city; boy...will we remain the same.'
 
At the tram stop they stand 4' 8" in 13 years of female fraternity framed by angry manga hairstyles
 
'Oh if we swap sides our reflections come out right... hahaha...'
 
Morning sunlight splits through trees blurring the twin silhouettes bouncing to shared earbuds singing
 
"...chasing blurry lines...chasing blurry lines..."1
1 “...chasing blurry lines...chasing blurry lines...” from "Chasing Blurry Lines" (TENBLANK) Composer: 飛内将大 (Tobinai Masahiro) Lyricist: Jamil Kazmi & 清竜人 (Ryujin Kiyoshi) 2025
T. E. W. Prak: author, poet, illustrator, filmmaker, educator, academic. Works published in: Scaffolding (defunct); Aphelion Webzine; The Wise Owl and Lilomul, with upcoming works in paying markets including Bullet Points and Baubles from Bones. His recent animated short film NINA NINE IX was selected by a Ukraine film festival to be shown in 100 schools in that country with an excellent review.

review of chapbook

Prak was kind enough to share the working manuscript that this poem is a part of. He says “its journey is of the day to day and the end of the world, between is love, family life, death and the beyond of existence.” I see this journey well begun with “Sisters.” A moment on a tram expands into future fates, swapping identities, and pop music. Every person is a nexus of time, space and culture, and together we are an electric matrix, which Prak conveys in this and other poems with an exciting allusive restlessness.

DZ