POETRY: RYANNE KAP

THE SCIENCE OF LAST THINGS


our faith was in the end of the world / it didn’t matter what burned if we could rise from the ashes / we would be raptured we would be gone / the old earth would pass away / was passing away / it wasn’t our concern / we were students of the apocalypse / rebuilt our steeples after the earthquakes / knew how to escape a flood / we lived for death / judgment / heaven / hell / we made destruction our new pastime / our history had no future anyways / we were living for the epilogue / forgot who else was in the story / we had aims beyond extinction / we thought we were too righteous for the fire / couldn’t see we were still breathing in the smoke

Ryanne Kap is a Chinese-Canadian writer from Strathroy, Ontario. Her work has been featured in Grain Magazine, Scarborough Fair, Ricepaper Magazine, Feelszine, and The Unpublished City Volume II. Following her BA in English and creative writing at the University of Toronto Scarborough, she will be pursuing an MA in English at Western University.