Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “Cicatrix Gospel” by Jacky Tang.

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Cicatrix Gospel

By Jacky Tang

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Copyright © Jacky Tang

Jacky is a high school junior from Vancouver, Canada. He is a 2026 Scholastic National Medalist in Poetry and one of sixteen Canadian FutureVerse poets. He is thrilled to attend the Adroit Summer Mentorship Program and the Kelly Writers House summer workshop later this year.

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