"I Hear The Shower Shutting Off" by Grant Chemidlin
I Hear The Shower Shutting Off
after D.A. Powell Jotting down my last thought before this world ends, by which I mean before you come in here completely naked. My angel, fallen, keep searching for those lost wings inside me. I hope you never find them. Each time you come the world ends, by which I mean begins. A sudden bursting. Originally published in & Change; Appears in the collection, In the Middle of a Better World (Central Avenue Poetry, 2026)
Audio: Grant Chemidlin reads “I Hear The Shower Shutting Off”
Grant Chemidlin is the author of In the Middle of a Better World (Central Avenue Poetry, 2026) and What We Lost in the Swamp (Central Avenue Poetry, 2023), a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. His poems and essays can be found in Lit Hub, The Los Angeles Review, Palette Poetry, The Florida Review, Quarterly West, and the Academy of American Poets, among other publications. He lives in Los Angeles.