Kenton K. Yee’s recent poems appear (or will soon) in Kenyon Review, Threepenny Review, RHINO, Cincinnati Review, Quarterly West, Poetry Northwest, Electric Literature, I-70 Review, Poetry Wales, Rattle, and other journals. A PhD theoretical physicist from UCLA, he taught at Columbia University and writes from Northern California.
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The coliseum’s breathtakingly variegated, like flower gardens, coral reefs, buffet spreads. A pass isn’t an expression of desire but an ejaculation. Every spiral arc is hugged and tucked away. The knights have fetishes: kneeling, jumping up in sync with each snap, and thrusting. When tackling starts, helmets glitter with the electric glow of neon signs. Feel me. Wrap your digits… Read more →
I reveled in form: drove at 4 am to Safeway for one carrot, bought grapes instead. The cashier asked how I was, as if we were parrots. I hid in my dorm, calculating another Feynman diagram because I could, doing what I mastered because I mastered it. But grad students were supposed to discover, not rehash, so I sunk as… Read more →