Aaron Caycedo-Kimura

Edamame

Originally published in Plume

Siren

Originally published in Plume

 

Here, right here,

right here, right here,

a bird calls from somewhere

in the backyard woods.

Her song reminds me

of an ex. I’m afraid

if I get up from this chair,

follow, she’ll have me

at the top of the hickory

with no way to get down.

Aaron Caycedo-Kimura is a writer and visual artist. He is the author of two poetry books: the full-length collection Common Grace (Beacon Press, 2022) and Ubasute, winner of the 2020 Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Competition. His honors include a MacDowell Fellowship, a Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship in Poetry, a St. Botolph Club Foundation Emerging Artist Award in Literature, and nominations for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and Best New Poets anthologies. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, Plume Poetry, Poetry Daily, RHINO, Pirene’s Fountain, Salamander, Cave Wall, Shenandoah, and elsewhere.