Waterbird, by Noreen Ocampo

I crumple, origami-soft & spilling, nurse a paper
 cut that will not heal. in the valley, a weeping
 hand. we cannot foresee how wounds reopen,
 how much deeper the edge will slice. love is not
 love, I learn.

Noreen Ocampo is a Filipina American writer studying English and film at Emory University. She is also a book reviewer for COUNTERCLOCK and a regular contributor for Marías at Sampaguitas, and you can find her poetry forthcoming in perhappened, ang(st), and Versification.