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i haven't written a new poem in months
...and a new poem about not writing poems
Mar 20
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Grace Kwan
19
6
8
against all odds, she chewed
Dude, you’re not homeless, are you? His first words at the laundromat. The voice came from behind Orion. She hadn’t seen him when she’d entered.
Mar 10
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Grace Kwan
17
2
6
beauty and the blade
Beauty for Lyon was more of a status symbol than an aphrodisiac. It was as necessary and expendable to him as money.
Feb 27
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Grace Kwan
15
7
5
i smoke cigarettes for the old me
i don’t know how they did it all without that smoke.
Feb 17
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Grace Kwan
19
11
trombone days
beer rained in the bar & that was the first time either of us dared to smile at each other.
Feb 6
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Grace Kwan
18
3
9
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She especially loved witnessing women’s rage. It scratched a psychological itch that sex never did.
Jan 26
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Grace Kwan
18
6
my massage therapist saw a little too much
he pressed his fingers into one spot, and another muscle would buck, like a piano whose keys all played the wrong notes.
Jan 16
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Grace Kwan
10
6
contents may have shifted
Sun and moon in the same sky, an eclipse of dark hair and golden glow.
Jan 5
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Grace Kwan
16
2
6
hunger
Sometimes I don’t say sorry
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Grace Kwan
25
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the unbearable weight of being
“My halmeoni says I have bad karma from a past life.”
Dec 8, 2025
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Grace Kwan
16
1
7
litany mistaking death for language
like the ocean says to the river
Nov 28, 2025
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Grace Kwan
17
5
v. afternoons with sisyphus
25 years of inhabiting this world all wrong, this body all wrong. Even breathing can be an arduous task.
Nov 17, 2025
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Grace Kwan
26
2
9
the language of lists
A list can describe a life in a paragraph.
Nov 7, 2025
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Grace Kwan
23
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iv. a spine shaped by years
They don’t think twice about all these little things, which are simply as much a part of them as their hearts and lungs.
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Grace Kwan
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