Liu Guangzu Hurries Home


Liu Guangzu hurries home, handlebar in
one hand, the other clutching a box
of takeaway Canadian food – hot, delicately

spiced and tasting like nothing so much as
the pristine air of the Yukon, with hints
of caribou breath, pine and Aurora Borealis.

As always, Liu’s family will linger over the
aroma of the great white north, but for sure
they’ll be hungry again in an hour or so.


(Originally appeared in Aberration Labyrinth)