Poet Profile

Jackie Chou

Jackie Chou writes free verses and Japanese short form poetry. Her work has appeared in Prune Juice, #FemkuMag, Akitsu Quarterly, Atlas Poetica, and others.

homemade vase
my childhood spent
with painted birds

melting snow
you keep slipping
from my heart

flying birds
I stop googling
my old crush

falling rain
the rhythm and rhyme
of our love-making

Credits:

“homemade vase” - Akitsu Quarterly, Fall 2019; “melting snow”; “flying birds”; “falling rain” - Failed Haiku Vol. 4, Issue 42, June 2019.