“Someone’s left a sunflower sticking out
of the drain of the sink so broken even
the junkyard’s rejected it outside the fences

I am beautiful though I know it only rarely”

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Chase Berggrun is a trans woman poet and educator and the author of R E D (Birds, LLC, 2018). Her poems and essays have appeared in Poetry Magazine, The Nation, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere. She lives in New York City.