#gavin yuan gao

[lifeinpoetry]

How lovely it is / you say / to have a bed to forget yourself in / in a city that doesn't love you 

— Gavin Yuan Gao, from “Glass City Aubade,” At the Altar of Touch

[typewriter-worries]

Like the sea, I shatter easily when touched by beauty

Like the Sea I Gather All the Shores, Gavin Yuan Gao

[heartshapedcloud]

self-portrait as the last wounded stag, by gavin yuan gao in 'at the altar of touch'

[ashtrayfloors]

Somewhere                 a train wails. The whistle                                 burrows through the night like a cold bullet, bearing the news                 of a death. 

—Gavin Yuan Gao, from “Lullaby” (Wildness 18)

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Atlanta

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How lovely it is / you say / to have a bed to forget yourself in / in a city that doesn’t love you

— Gavin Yuan Gao, from “Glass City Aubade,” At the Altar of Touch  

[weltenwellen]

Gavin Yuan Gao, from "Wild Nothing"

[taiturner]

— Gavin Yuan Gao, "Lullaby"

[emiliosandozsequence]

yellowjackets (2021-present) cr. ashley lyle & bart nickerson / the collected prose works, 'dracula', bram stoker / hymn to pan, aleister crowley / the mystical rose: selected poems translated by ellen doré watson, 'nigredo', adélia prado / the lives of the heart, 'three foxes by the edge of the field at twilight', jane hirshfield / lore, alexandra bracken / self portrait as the last wounded stag, gavin yuan gao

[sahartragictale89]

Gavin Yuan Gao, from "Lullaby"

[florriescreamlagoon]

I burn for what's no longer mine.

Gavin Yuan Gao

[haseebbb]

“Hold me, I say, the way grief possesses a heart.”

— Gavin Yuan Gao, from "Lullaby".

[lifeinpoetry]

Nights shipwrecked / in nameless wanting

— Gavin Yuan Gao, from “Glass City Aubade,” At the Altar of Touch

[sollozas]

“...light refused to veil her absence / & that absence stung like a bellow / puncturing the silence of a valley.” 

- Gavin Yuan Gao, “One time my father, crying, drove into the dusk” published in Up The Staircase Quarterly

[katscratching]

Kathryn’s poem ‘Sold Out II’ is out in Issue 16 of Australia’s annually-published foam:e journal. Included in the issue are poems by Alice Allan, Owen Bullock, Barnaby Smith, Maria Takolander, Rose Hunter and Gavin Yuan Gao. 

[ashtrayfloors]

If we could, we’d live forever / in arcade fluorescence / we’d live  forever in worship / of a neon god

—Gavin Yuan Gao, from “Glass City Aubade” (Hobart, June 2019)

[weltenwellen]

Gavin Yuan Gao, from "Lullaby"