we snack on cashews
and peeled pear slices
from ziploc bags
we sit in riverside
park and watch the
teens skateboard we
think about the past
and scream fuck and
laugh and feel in our
hearts that the world
is so real and so fake
at the same time.
we meander and flop
like a fish in the sky
or a sky in the fish.
and isn’t it all so
perfectly blue today?
let’s go to book culture
and live vicariously
through the books
we hold lovingly,
wishing for a chance
to afford them one day.
one day… oh hey,
your shoelaces are
untied— here, let me
get them for you.
Louise Kim is a Korean American student at the Horace Mann School in The Bronx, NY. Their writing has been published in a number of publications, including Brown Sugar Lit, Green Ink Poetry, Gypsophila Zine, The WEIGHT Journal, and Panoply Zine. Her work has been nationally recognized by the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. In their free time, Louise enjoys practicing archery, studying French, developing her spiritual practice, and reading and writing.