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Gavin Yuan Gao

Gavin Yuan Gao

Gavin Yuan Gao is the author of the poetry collection, At the Altar of Touch (University of Queensland Press, 2022). They are currently a James A. Michener Fellow at the Michener Center for Writers.

‘Itinerant’, a new poem by Gavin Yuan Gao

August 2024, no. 467 23 July 2024
A citizen of a difficult memory, I travel at the full speed of sleep. In my coat pocket: a fruit knife to peel the sun, a wine -dark passport that keeps me company en route to anonymity. When the war ended, mountains learned to crouch in the distance like snow-capped suspicions. The night in my eyes longs to hold and be brightened by such distance and my sleep, when it wraps its lanky arms around ... (read more)