Despite What You’ve Heard

desire does not live in the heart.
Desire latches onto your throat

or at least mine does. I scream
my wants into a zip lock bag, walk outside

and give them to the wind. And when I pretend

they aren’t coming back I know this

is more about ritual than anything else.

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I am trying my best to believe

the wind doesn’t blow

to rip sparrow eggs from their nests.

But It’s already June. I know it’s silent

for everyone but me.

Sean Cho A. is the author of American Home (Autumn House 2021) winner of the Autumn House Publishing chapbook contest. His work can be future found or ignored in Copper Nickel, Pleiades, The Penn Review, The Massachusetts Review, Nashville Review, among others. He is currently an MFA candidate at the University of California Irvine and the Associate Editor of THRUSH Poetry Journal. Find him @phlat_soda