ON LOVING A SAINT
ON LOVING A SAINT
ON LOVING A SAINT
ON LOVING A SAINT


Yimeng Huang

︎ILLUSTRATION: Sediment,
Venessa Kaiser © 2025
















After a line from “The Beekeeper's Daughter” by Sylvia Plath // ILLUSTRATION: Sediment, Venessa Kaiser © 2025
poetry, may 25









Under the coronal of sugar roses
You thrash like a martyr
Like candied glass actually sand like silt sifting through fingers
My fingers. Or like the ocean like juice like liquid love-hurt like
Favorite (swim against the waves the tides) jellyfish
Don’t disintegrate but bring your dreams/ambition/sweet dreams
Goodnight. But don’t
Go yet. Don’t get yourself impaled
Yet: eat the pollen rip the petals smile
So I can cry an ecosystem a starfish a star
Be a star. Whimsical star lollipop that has its own light (mine) stay
Still be heavy is the head is the
Heart/heroes kill their lovers
Kill me. Kill me. Kill me.









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Yimeng Huang (she/they) is a seventeen-year-old writer hailing from Houston, Texas, whose work has been published with Sarah Lawrence and Kenyon Young Writers. You can find her at the acme of teenage angst. // instagram


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Venessa Kaiser (she/them) is an architect, multidisciplinary artist, mental health advisor, sculptor & poet.

A multidisciplinary creative by any means necessary, she creates what she feels to magnify the solitude of being human.

For instance, shapes that hold people, the metamorphosis of the mind, a life written on paper, shapes of our bodies, horrors of the universe beyond comprehension, loud feelings, and death.
exploring concepts of gender, identity, cynicism, psyche, and philosophy.

She can create a world for you, only if you listen. // instagram



































ON LOVING A SAINT


Yimeng Huang
After a line from “The Beekeeper's Daughter” by Sylvia Plath // ILLUSTRATION: Sediment, Venessa Kaiser © 2025
poetry, may 25






Under the coronal of sugar roses
You thrash like a martyr
Like candied glass actually sand like silt sifting through fingers
My fingers. Or like the ocean like juice like liquid love-hurt like
Favorite (swim against the waves the tides) jellyfish
Don’t disintegrate but bring your dreams/ambition/sweet dreams
Goodnight. But don’t
Go yet. Don’t get yourself impaled
Yet: eat the pollen rip the petals smile
So I can cry an ecosystem a starfish a star
Be a star. Whimsical star lollipop that has its own light (mine) stay
Still be heavy is the head is the
Heart/heroes kill their lovers
Kill me. Kill me. Kill me.






AUTHOR BIO
AUTHOR BIO
AUTHOR BIO
AUTHOR BIO

Yimeng Huang (she/they) is a seventeen-year-old writer hailing from Houston, Texas, whose work has been published with Sarah Lawrence and Kenyon Young Writers. You can find her at the acme of teenage angst. // instagram

ILLUSTRATOR BIO
ILLUSTRATOR BIO
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Venessa Kaiser (she/them) is an architect, multidisciplinary artist, mental health advisor, sculptor & poet.

A multidisciplinary creative by any means necessary, she creates what she feels to magnify the solitude of being human.

For instance, shapes that hold people, the metamorphosis of the mind, a life written on paper, shapes of our bodies, horrors of the universe beyond comprehension, loud feelings, and death.
exploring concepts of gender, identity, cynicism, psyche, and philosophy.

She can create a world for you, only if you listen. // instagram
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