pax/pay/vow wax/way/wao

Rachel Oyster Kim

pax/pay/vow

wasted royal jelly and
wanting hot saliva

ours scores in a cardinal direction
unknown on this plane

stepping on the head of the mollusk
it’s realized

time’s first indulgence
was a carnival
wheel

wax/way/wao

waxing ambergris
and waning rust

our power spores upwards
and the spirit assures us

that threaded loose in a geoduck
is our advising element

an amoeba’s wish
for you for you
the world

Rachel Oyster Kim is a poet, party thrower, and magpie of the couch.