Rob Macaisa Colgate (he/she/they) is the author of the poetry collection Hardly Creatures (Tin House, 2025) and the verse drama My Love is Water (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2025). A 2025 NEA and 2024 Ruth Lilly Fellow, he is the managing poetry editor at Foglifter and lives in Chicago. Find Rob on Instagram @swing.sets.

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"Family Visit Privilege" and "Right"

By ROB MACAISA COLGATE

That the t-shirts and pantry spill over, unopened Oreos and sukang pinakurat.