Sean Cho A.
in the grocery store i saw a man holding three oranges like he’d forgotten what hands were for. i followed him for two aisles before realizing i was projecting. my therapist says i do that project meaning onto strangers. but i don’t think she understands how much quieter the world is when you let metaphors do the talking. i picked up a pomegranate and put it back. i didn’t want to deal with the red. sometimes even fruit feels like an accusation. later, at home, i googled “how to tell if you’re the problem.” the first result was an ad for therapy. the second was a video of a lyrebird mimicking a chainsaw.
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Sean Cho A. is the author of American Home (Autumn House 2021), winner of the Autumn House Press chapbook contest. His work can be found in The New England Review, Black Warrior Review, Copper Nickel, and The Massachusetts Review. He is a graduate of the Master of Fine Arts program at The University of California Irvine and the doctoral program at the University of Cincinnati. He is an assistant professor and lives in the southern United States.