Release / Luke Young

Freedom! Hangs from a tree

Noose to the wind

Branch bowed

Broken vertebrae

A vase for dead flowers

Luke Young is an Indigenous American who grew up among southeast Asian war refugees in California and Washington State before being moved to Cambodia to live from the ages of five to seventeen. He's worked and traveled all over the world before being forced by circumstance to move back to the United States in 2017 for a period of five years. His writings have been published in New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Cambodia, Thailand and the United States.