Ars Poetica — Blackbird Archive

← v21n1, Spring 2022

Let’s say the night before I had swallowed sixty-four Advils, no one finding me when I took the rattling bottle from the cabinet or downed the first twenty, counting and swallowing two by two like my mouth was Noah’s ark. I wake up alone on the bathroom floor some hours later, a stew of red pills half dissolved around my head. I clean it up, dizzy, still unfound.

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Arhm Choi Wild

Arhm Choi Wild is the author of Cut to Bloom (Write Bloody Publishing, 2020), which won the 2019 Write Bloody Prize. Their work has appeared in Barrow Street , The Massachusetts Review , Pleiades , Split this Rock , and elsewhere. They are the recipient of fellowships from Kundiman, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. They were a finalist for the 2020 Poetic Excellence Prize from Button Poetry. They earned an MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College. They work as the director of the progressive teaching institute, and diversity coordinator at a school in New York City. Photo by Sarah Phillips