heard words in an intimate timeline

learn enough pretty words
and unfurled cocoons reveal roses with
petals drizzling in milky way firmament

:speak of lilac

learn enough pretty words
and make stale steel sensational
or battered brick bombastic/beautiful

:speak of pyrite

learn enough pretty words
and secure with palpable letters
a proper place/among manicured lawns

:speak of fanciful/gliding fabrics that

learn enough pretty words
and maybe she’ll swoon rosy cheeked
engulfed/in a lana del rey aura

:pirouette under the guise of moonlight

learn enough pretty words
and maybe he’ll pluck from a tree
the best philly cheese steak in the city

:and embrace the b u s t of your tenacious body

learn all the pretty words and have them coat your tongue
for if you speak the right ones loud enough
you may start a revolution
a sublime
and sequin
evolution

…

…

…

bar side interlude

their faces were puzzled and their brows furrowed in alien angles

— /\/\/No, but where are you originally from?\/\/\ —

i answered with one of the prettiest words i know

here

…

…

…

heard words in an intimate timeline ii

learn enough pretty words
and perhaps the mundane ceases
to hold onto crystal rain drops

learn enough pretty words
like strawberry leather/and salsa with a
tinge of valvarian salt

talk about pedestrian pb&j’s/instead of avocado toast
talk about beers in the backyard/instead of artisan craft breweries
talk about a living wage and working class livelihood

learn enough pretty words
and one is able to articulate to them
that they are wrong/incorrect/mistaken

they don’t see the beauty in the word/black
they don’t see the beauty in the word/immigrant
they don’t see the beauty in the word/queer

or agender/trans/indigenous/two spirit/mexican/woman/sensitive/
misfit/color/bisexual/fat/gay/lesbian/loud/chinese/hmong/japanese/latinx/culture/community/heritage/proud/human/pride

they do not see our pretty words
they cannot articulate our pretty words

learn all the pretty words and have them coat your tongue
for if you speak the right ones loud enough
you may start a revolution
a sublime
and sequin
evolution

a poem by YUN
artwork by Taro-K — their stuff is awesome!!!! they also made a fanbook for My Hero Academia! but it’s sold out :’[[[