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hand drawn butcher knife on white background

Jiaozi

in Poetry Transit/Transition/Translation on July 2, 2021 June 11, 2021

We never bought a food processor so I grind pork with a knife, criss cross muscle fibers, get as close as I can to the cutting board, knuckles battering bamboo. Ba prefers the rubber resistance…

Ancient handprints made on rock; mirrored, distorted, and tinted green.

Wenzhou

We both lived on the fourteenth floor, across from one another, Building C. After a number of test runs (from what the video blindly reports) she ascends fourteen more, chair in hand. Peeling back the…

heavily pink-filtered image of large department store with racks of clothing

Three Poems

in Poetry Transit/Transition/Translation on June 30, 2021 June 11, 2021

Going Out of Business Here, at the end of all things, or at least the end of the mall, where in another lifetime my aunt wore heels and bright suits every day, took me to…

This Is Not a Sonnet for Your Silence

in Poetry Transit/Transition/Translation on June 29, 2021 June 11, 2021

Force a flower from a branch like a dead god come back. The king is about to announce there are no cracks. But a hundred bucks says that thirst-trap snapping Jolene will one hundo percent…

thin slices of red pepper on a wooden cutting board

Things That Are Long and Things on Fire

in Poetry Transit/Transition/Translation on June 25, 2021 June 11, 2021

Things that are long The year it felt like everyone was dying The year everyone actually died The years 2016 to 2020, also 2015, and January, always The five days before your parents can get…