Minor Subjects

Loose-jawed anchovy swimming circles in the aquarium
display

& from a cheek pressed against the laminated glass: is that
fish hurt?

New book u rly want for $17 vs. used book u got for
cheap

Sitting in the chair labeled not the poet’s chair

Having thoughts of going into tech

Half-broken umbrella finishes breaking in the wind

Indecisive spring/stubborn winter

Among a list of things that don’t want to be metaphors:
earthworm on the ground not dead

Driving through Spreckels in the dark

The two queer households in Spreckels

On TV, a man in love moves in circles around the man he
loves

& a song with a single line goes on for hours: once again I
fall into—

A room to walk out of

The longest line at airport security

Where, before we enter

You & I pour reverse osmosis water down a sink

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Laetitia Keok (@iaetitia) is a writer and editor from Singapore. Her poetry has been placed for the Adrienne Rich Poetry Award, the Oxford Poetry Prize, and is published in Poetry Northwest, Diode, Wildness, and elsewhere. She has received scholarships from Singapore's National Arts Council and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Currently, Laetitia edits for Sine Theta Magazine and is an MFA candidate in Poetry at New York University.