Roller Coaster, Lightning Storm by Wo Chan - Poems | Academy of American Poets

This one moment I loved: you / in the air, permed hair flying

Roller Coaster, Lightning Storm Add to anthology × Load audio player Wo Chan for my mother This one moment I loved: you in the air, permed hair flying wild in the rain, around and through and not a thought of us dying in the air, permed hair flying against the storm, lashing hot rain and not a thought of us dying, strapped in the plastic car, chained against the storm lashing hot rain on our faces as we’re hurled up, strapped in the plastic car, chain clouds glowing, whirling—the gust on our faces as we’re hurled up, launched into the electric clouds glowing whirling, the gust as you lau

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