{"id":5116,"date":"2025-08-04T19:12:31","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T19:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/writers-house-review\/?page_id=5116"},"modified":"2026-03-07T13:31:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T13:31:53","slug":"three-poems","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/writers-house-review\/vol-6-winter-2025-2027\/three-poems\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Poems"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr \/>\n<h4><em>Peyton Yoo<\/em><\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\ud560\uba38\ub2c8\uc758 \uadf8\ub987<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I am blue like nostalgia<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I am bilingual, I am traveled.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I have beheld different forms and impressions<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In my time pinched, glazed, and fired.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I have held levels of sophistication;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">an inception of dishes;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">charred chuck to Cheez-Its<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I live to serve.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Peek into me, and find the last morsels<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A stew of memories; of time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Even bathed with scents and spirits<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I stink of fermentation and brine<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I have heard the hubbub of generations<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Just as I have heard the soft singing of my facsimiles<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As they have fallen<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">They have been separated in shape<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now we are separated in space.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">My chips too, may fracture me into sharp sand<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If that should happen<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What will it mean?<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Mosaic is the Answer!<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I have always been clumsy<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I always spill, or dribble, or stain<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I am also sentimental<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sometimes I keep trash in my pockets<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Just in case I want to scrapbook later<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So I find myself conflicted, when I go to reach for one<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">She never even had a chance to hand one to me<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So they aren\u2019t really mine<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I\u2019ve never had her kimchi jjigae in one,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I\u2019ve never seen her wash one<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I never will<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So since I am an imminent danger to most things<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Should I even reach for it?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It\u2019s happened before,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Where I lose my grip, and then look down to see the shattered damage I\u2019ve done<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And all I can think of is how many years of laughter and good tidings<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I have carelessly strewn across the tile<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And how I can\u2019t even imagine her disappointed face<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And how I don\u2019t even know if she would be disappointed<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Would she even know which bowl I\u2019m talking about?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So I should just leave it there, right?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">No chances taken?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But things are meant to be used<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Isn\u2019t it beautiful that it was loved until it couldn\u2019t be?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Is anything meant to last forever?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Is death not principle completion?<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>\ud560\uba38\ub2c8\uc758 \uadf8\ub987 &#8211; Shattered<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/writers-house-review\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/245\/2025\/08\/unnamed.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Peyton Yoo<\/strong> is a SAS sophomore majoring in psychology and minoring in creative writing. 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