January Lit: "Disagreement, Twins" by Ching-In Chen

January 20, 2014

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For January, we bring you a lovely and strange poem by Ching-In Chen, titled "Disagreement, Twins". The poem paints the titular disagreement with precise and surprising imagery, haunting the reader with its unlikely setting and leaving questions hovering in its blank spaces. 

-- Karissa Chen, Fiction & Poetry Editor


When I crawled into mother, I saw he had threaded stitches like vines up and down her walls.  He hung a silver curtain, a waterfall of hair whistling between us.

            The door was on his side, mine the shit-hole.

                                                I waited out August sticky, stewing with comeback. 

            I could not see bloody silver, heard him magpie, a bubble burping out her esophagus.

 

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Ching-In Chen

Ching-In Chen is author of The Heart's Traffic and co-editor of The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities. They are a Kundiman, Lambda and Norman Mailer Poetry Fellow and member of Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation and Macondo writing communities. A community organizer, they have worked in Asian American communities of San Francisco, Oakland, Riverside and Boston. In Milwaukee, they are cream city review's editor-in-chief. www.chinginchen.com

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