{"id":1529,"date":"2023-06-01T11:55:20","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T15:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/236magazine\/?page_id=1529"},"modified":"2023-06-01T11:55:20","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T15:55:20","slug":"aaron-caycedo-kimura-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/236magazine\/aaron-caycedo-kimura-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Caycedo-Kimura"},"content":{"rendered":"

Edamame<\/h2>\n

Originally published in Plume<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Siren<\/h2>\n

Originally published in Plume<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Here, right here, <\/em><\/p>\n

right here, right here<\/em>,<\/p>\n

a bird calls from somewhere<\/p>\n

in the backyard woods.<\/p>\n

Her song reminds me<\/p>\n

of an ex. I\u2019m afraid<\/p>\n

if I get up from this chair,<\/p>\n

follow, she\u2019ll have me<\/p>\n

at the top of the hickory<\/p>\n

with no way to get down.<\/p>\n

Aaron Caycedo-Kimura is a writer and visual artist. He is the author of two poetry books: the full-length collection Common Grace<\/em> (Beacon Press, 2022) and Ubasute<\/em>, 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\u2019s Fountain, Salamander, Cave Wall, Shenandoah,<\/em> and elsewhere.<\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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\u2019m afraid if I get up from this chair, follow, she\u2019ll have me at the top of the hickory with no […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2391,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/236magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1529"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/236magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/236magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/236magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/236magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1529"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/236magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1533,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/236magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1529\/revisions\/1533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/236magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}