Kaitlin Tan

Grief as Space Mountain (ii)

You were my favorite on a school trip
where I call myself brave. The only one
to spend the whole afternoon delving
into the dark hour after hour. How I numbed
to your twists and turns.

After each ride, I studied
my snapshot in suspension:

My portrait as a hair-haloed blur.

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Kaitlin Tan (she/her) grew up between Manila, Philippines and Macao, SAR. She is a senior at Johns Hopkins University majoring in writing seminars and cognitive science. Her writing has appeared in Contrary Magazine, Every Day Fiction, The Inflectionist Review and elsewhere. She is an editorial assistant at The Hopkins Review and a reader at Trio House Press.