Gavin Yuan Gao (they/xe) is a genderqueer immigrant poet. They are the winner of the 2020 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize. Their first book of poetry, At the Altar of Touch, is forthcoming from University of Queensland Press.

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Portrait of an Insomniac Opening His Fridge at 2 AM

By GAVIN YUAN GAO

Let me walk into the courtyard
& sleep the unpolluted sleep
of a snowman