Lyn Li Che is from Malaysia. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in Poetry Northwest, Copper Nickel, the Missouri Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, swamp pink (fka Crazyhorse), Indiana Review, Waxwing, the Best American Poetry blog, and others. She currently lives in New York City.
your scent settled in my mouth
like a prayer. i don’t know
why i said later when i meant
this song, these strobe lights,
your taste knotting my throat.
i guess i didn’t yet believe
in yes or a life without skirting
around my sutures. eyes open,
i wanted to meet you inside
that red-blooded moment. to hurt.