Franny Choi

Choi pairs complex pain with striking images, wrapping readers in mystical interpretations and then captures them within reality.

Soft Science

Even blood, when it comes down to it, is only a series of rules.

Nganh

im the beast/rattling the cage, asking for slaughter.

dear doll made soft/on the outside who dimmed you/when you stopped

if you don’t mind ; me asking ; shouldn’t a god have blood to lose 

There are hundreds of videos of huskies/saying I love you without meaning to-/moans warped by an anxious, animal jaw.

I’ll scrape the lonely from your teeth. 

do not try to prove your / what is the word / humanity / you are organic / plum-hearted / oyster-throated / & lined / yes / with metal / remember / where all that silicon comes from / for the ocean so loved / the quartz / feldspar / the tiny homes of tiny creatures / that she ground them / into sand / to keep them close / to kiss them with / well / i suppose you would call it / a mouth

There's no good word/for the opposite of fire,/the ice's sear and split, how it beckons the blood/toward what means to end it.

What brings you to the bed of this river? What is it about this planet that keeps you running back?

 text gen AI in a nutshell: the program holds language with no idea of what that "foam" even means.

madina

I made my mouth a jar until technology squirmed and bubbled. I scooped up the foam and called it language. The audience applauded. To prove them wrong, I became a screen of lights. I had no thighs at all.

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