leave / Andy Winter
after SUNMI's GASHINA (가시나):
a) thorns on a flower
b) "are you leaving?"
c) (Korean slang) a bitch
there is a
gash in a
rose where you
tried me
like a scent
i bled petals
& grew a myth
while you wilted
there was a tongue
for every nettled night
there was a bullet of
lipstick blooming
for every flake of ash
there was a ghost
turning the bath into a
shade of ivy & rash
for every letter written
there was winter
ready to spring its thorns
mottle poems with
spines & flesh
there is a
bitch you left behind
in a vase in a room
a mermaid on a rock
a glass jar fairy
a flower aimed
at your head
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Full-time broke person with expensive tastes, Andy Winter is a gay, non-binary poet from Singapore. They are a whimsical blend of narcissism and self-loathing that is thoroughly unimpressed with reality. Aside from being an English Literature major, Andy is also a drag performer. Their works have been published in Cordite Poetry Review.