Christine Kwon is the author of A Ribbon the Most Perfect Blue (Southeast Missouri State University Press 2023), which won the Cowles Poetry Book Prize. Her poems are forthcoming in Copper Nickel, Tupelo Quarterly, and Annulet. She lives in New Orleans, in a yellow shotgun house. Find her on Instagram @theschooloflonging.
Egger’s sentences jump from one point to another, perhaps mirroring in her language how the speakers jump from one bed into another—the next temporary stop is wherever desire leads her to be.