Rough Chop

Yours
are the snores I want to
eat,
especially when it’s
snowing,
coming down big time—
&
with some lime, a little
garlic
chopped rustic, that’s
all,
zero need for
any
additional sweet.

weekend

we tiptoe to the window

as though the snow’s

snowing would be disturbed

interrupted & it

shouldn’t be god no

it’s doing its biggest

show yet this season so

there’s nowhere

to go but tiptoe back

to bed o blanket under

which we can watch it

all morning no need

to change the channel

no way to

Chen Chen is the author of the poetry collection, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency (BOA Editions, 2022) and the forthcoming book of essays, In Cahoots with the Rabbit God (Noemi Press, 2024). His debut book of poems, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (BOA Editions, 2017), was longlisted for the National Book Award and won the Thom Gunn Award, among other honors. He teaches for the low-residency MFA programs at New England College and Stonecoast.