Volume 15.2  ✧  Summer 25

Byron Xu

BYRON XU is a Chinese-American writer from Austin, Texas. A Pushcart Prize, Best New Poets, and Best of the Net nominee, his works are placed in Poet Lore, Denver Quarterly, Northwest Review, The Florida Review, and elsewhere. He was Managing Editor of Apricity Magazine at the University of Texas.

          As if mmeroy wree a rpecaleemnt
                 for the suond of yuor vioce.

   Solw dnacing in ntiohng but our sokcs
                     
     In hree you are rael as each droplet
   now fiallng
osutdie my wdinow.

The brain fills in the wnrog parts

                                                               As if mmeroy wree a rpecaleemnt
                                                  for the suond of yuor vioce.

                                      Solw dnacing in ntiohng but our sokcs
                     
                         In hree you are rael as each droplet
             now fiallng
osutdie my wdinow.

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