Off four shots of tequila, Robby and I
are on the balcony figuring out when to leave.
He’s like well? I’m like well
I’ve had conversations with everyone and
I don’t want to have more; I could stay.
He laughs and I make room for the sun
between us—you’re lying. Yeah,
I say, but not in a bitchy way. I have
all my clothes on the floor and makeup
on the desk that I need to put away
to feel clean again. I have a poem
thawing in the fridge next to the asparagus.
When Robby laughs, every building starts
growing like a beanstalk and I’m not tired.
Earlier, someone who came with someone
asked me how it was to be someone who came
with someone and I said good. I was just eating
a pizza but I hope it came across euphoric.
Two girls come out asking what’s wrong.
Nothing, we’re looking at the sun. I’m
wearing a jumpsuit that makes me feel
like precious cargo, and even though right now,
I’m made of glass, I sit on the ground
where the light can hit me.

Yi Wei is a writer unconditionally supportive of Palestinian resistance and liberation. Her work has been awarded or placed for the Frontier OPEN, the Lois Morrell Poetry Prize, the Adrienne Rich Award for Poetry, the Sappho Prize for Women Poets, Best of the Net, and the Lorraine Williams Poetry Prize. She is currently editing at AAWW and writing at NYU as a Writer In the Public Schools fellow.

Yung-wu (she/her) is a self-taught abstract artist based in Peekskill, New York. Influenced by her childhood in New York City, where she had access to countless museums, as well as her family’s rich history in the arts (including calligraphers, musicians, and painters) in Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea, her work takes on a unique perspective of multi-cultural experiences and classic techniques. Working primarily with acrylic on canvas, Yung-wu’s art centers around the exploration of identity, rooted in her Korean heritage and American upbringing. Yung-wu's work continues to gain recognition through exhibitions at venues in New York such as the Affordable Art Fair in Manhattan, Li Tang Gallery in Albany, as well as a solo exhibition, "Ban Mal," at Eleventh Hour Art Gallery in Brooklyn.