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"Instructions for Moving/Migrating" by Winter Yim

  • May 23
  • 1 min read


Box up scrapbooks and scars — art projects


thought lost, Beanie Babies thought tossed.


Dig up fossils of selves. Declutter the cross


you ironically bought. Zip through fast food



stops. Glide the Garden State, bookend


Manhattan. Let your college degree bounce


in the back of the van. Order delivery: chicken


wings and pizza. Toss the bread and cheese back



while downloading dating apps. Decorate with


anime stickers and family photos. Northern exposure,


have a pothos dying in the corner, hose choked


of sunshine and water. Slip into comfort staying



too long in this place. When Mom calls


from the hospital, be two hundred miles away.




Winter is a queer, mixed-race writer based in Massachusetts. Their writing covers themes such as home and belonging, identity, transformation, and invisibility. Their work has appeared in Breakwater Review, Sheila-Na-Gig, Stone Poetry Quarterly, and The Tuskegee Review.

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