Radian Hong

View of the City From the City

check out the view from this hotel window / painted with an impressionist’s carelessness / sidewalks pinching distant traffic / they killed a man for saying the earth was round / he was simply saying, check out the view from here / the earth is balled up by gravity / streets crisscross like singles on dating apps / they’re held together by something other than gravity / the city burns like a firework / consuming itself / all the stars in the sky are consuming themselves / the lights are doubled in the thick glass / glass that won’t even open / the city is already a ghost

Radian Hong writes from California. His work appears or is forthcoming in Diode Poetry Journal, Necessary Fiction, The Shore, The Coachella Review, and other journals and has been recognized by The Poetry Society and the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers.