by Leah Jun Oh | Feb 20, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
Sonic Boom It knocked you for seven in the frozen aisle. It wasn’t sound. It was faster than that. You’re going through the ice box, rooting for peas when, with a BOOM, you have your life play the drums in your ears. You hear the past crackle...
by Leah Jun Oh | Feb 19, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
Luciferins Yeah: all the colours crowding the daylight claiming their own place in the sun and then there’s us reacting with oxygen to make our own position clear, our own availability gorgeous. Pride? Yeah: why not, we say as we spark the...
by Leah Jun Oh | Feb 15, 2022 | Video
I arrived with the wonder of something new but knowing it was so familiar. Months, days, in the journey, slowly mulling it over, breathing and hoping on the destination then a sudden, sudden rush to arrive. Expectant with a fever that only fills you in...
by Leah Jun Oh | Jan 28, 2022 | Video
The Ballad of Mescal and Pistachio Verse 4. Cards 4 spades slide over the felt table. Bourbon flows to all those still able. Reek of sweat and piss stains the air and now this: Mezcal the widow maker. Pistach the trouble ...
by Leah Jun Oh | Jan 25, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
The Love Poems I finally took the trash out, sent that email, and had enough clean dishes to eat a meal at the table but there was no time to write the poem Before you woke up this morning I slipped into the cool autumn air in search of the...