POETRY

To fold confession:

Trans Issue 2015

By CHING-IN CHEN  |  26 NOV 2015

when yr immigrant alters
a body

we did not make or exit

when yr yellow — alters a diagram

                                                             here is a window which became city
                                                             cleaners walked by the waterless

what is a fountain without luck
but a gathering of small eyes watching yr every move
meaning of diagram

something about questions
which could eliminate your blue mouth

Ching-In Chen is the author of The Heart's Traffic and co-editor of The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities. A Kundiman, Lambda Fellow and Callaloo Fellow, they are part of the Macondo and Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation writing communities.

RELATED ARTICLES

POETRY

from Nature Poem

By TOMMY PICO

“I can’t write a nature poem bc that conversation happens in the Hall of / South American Peoples in the American Museum of Natural History”

POETRY

Missing

By MONICA SOK

“Celebration of a new year in April — The flute player’s wooden flute — Sinn Sisamouth; his soothing voice played before sleep...”