Franny Choi is the author of the collection Floating, Brilliant, Gone (Write Bloody Publishing, 2014) and the chapbook Death by Sex Machine (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2017). She has received fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center, the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, and Kundiman. She is an MFA candidate at the University of Michigan, co-host of the poetry podcast Vs., and a member of the Dark Noise Collective.

POETRY

I Guess By Now I Thought I’d Be Done With Shame

By FRANNY CHOI

I left the shower and kept
singing. I sang about my body
like I was proud. I was proud.