Poetry
Let us build a fire
In the living room
Where living is done.
The kitchen plants need
Mowing and the cabinets
To be axed and split into
Kindling. We’ll slink inside
Dresses, apply the brightest
Rouge. Prettiest conflagration.
Poet Joseph Legaspi was born and raised in the Philippines; his family immigrated to Los Angeles when he was 12. He earned a BA at Loyola Marymount University and an MFA from New York University. Legaspi’s collections of poetry include Threshold (2017), Imago (2007), which...