Poems from mxiao
it’s ten at night
you’re listening to sad songs on repeat because they are the aloe that you need right now for the heat in your chest...
1.
i held fire in my hands once.
it was in a test tube,
sodium and water
burning together
bright red and
leaping and
angry.
i held...
There are a surprising number of things
that I “can’t be”.
For example,
I was told that I couldn’t be
a singer,
a fashionista,
or a...
Somewhere
in the oversized jail cell of my mind
something is pinging.
A fly
alights on the windowsill
among the carcasses of its...
1.
as you grow up
you begin to realize some things
2.
pickle the teddy bear
stood sentinel at the head of your bed
since the days you...