How many calories
are there in a flower?
If I tear a chain of marigolds
into tiny pieces will I
feel full faster?
Now that I’m dead
do carbs count
less? How do I
decide how much
to eat now
that no one
can see me?
How do I measure
my progress when I weigh
less than an ounce?
How many flowers
equal one brownie
in fat grams?
Where does yellow go
when we have crushed
all of the petals
between our teeth?
Joan Kwon Glass is the Korean diasporic author of NIGHT SWIM, winner of the Diode Book Prize (Diode Editions, 2022) & two chapbooks. She serves as editor-in-chief for Harbor Review & as a teacher for several writing centers including Brooklyn Poets, Corporeal & Hudson Valley Writers Center. Joan’s poems have been featured or are forthcoming in Poetry Daily, The Slowdown, Poetry Northwest, Ninth Letter, Rattle, Asian American Writer’s Workshop (The Margins), Tahoma Literary Review, Prairie Schooner, Cherry Tree, Juniper, Salamander & elsewhere. She lives in coastal Connecticut with her family.