Touch
A poem of skin, love, the violin, and the limits of knowing desire.
Scarlett Guan
Exploring language, space, and contemporary rituals through art.
Scarlett Guan
Exploring language, space, and contemporary rituals through art.
Category Poetry
Poems and language works published as writing in their own right.
Starfire at Twenty-Three
A poem of imitation, smoke, first fire, and the people who like it.
Language and Ash
A poem on cigar ash, former kings, and the afterimage of fire.
A Civilization of Blood
A short poem on pain, bleeding, empathy, and force.
Near Mountains
A poem of mountains too near to see, smoke, youth, and aftersound.
Che, Still Young
A poem voiced through impossible idealism, image, smoke, and youth that does not age.
Keys
A poem on a first London home, an artist-made Phipps House doorplate, borrowed key sounds, and what access makes the body carry.