This selection, chosen by guest editor Alexis Ivy, is from Reacquaint by Allison Thung (kith books 2024).
Autumn
Look at me, recalling the romance out of everything. Your eyes, your hair; your last name and career inclinations. I will always be less I don’t remember his name, but I remember that day; and more Yesterday, I found him on LinkedIn—he’s married now, and works in IT. Don’t get me wrong — most of me is grateful my need to know is almost always satiated. But a tiny part that yearns for mystery will always remain. For surely nothing quite so human as unanswered questions and lack of closure, come to life in unreliable narration and confusing dreams. Though perhaps, this is a natural defence mechanism—my body and mind come to consensus that the only way I will move forward is if I can get a clear look backward, and so doing their best to keep me advancing always. After all, if I remembered only the colliding cold of autumn on my arms and warmth of your palm against my back, I would be lost forever to the past.
Allison Thung is a Singaporean poet. She is the author of Reacquaint (kith books, 2024) and Molar (kith books, 2024). Her poetry has been published in ANMLY, Sixth Finch, Cease, Cows, Gone Lawn, and elsewhere, and nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, Best Microfiction, and Best Small Fictions. Allison is an Assistant Poetry Editor at ANMLY. 
Alexis Ivy is a 2018 recipient of the Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship in Poetry. She is the author of Romance with Small-Time Crooks (BlazeVOX [books], 2013), and Taking the Homeless Census (Saturnalia Books, 2020) which won the 2018 Saturnalia Editors Prize. She is co-editor of Essential Voices: A COVID-19 Anthology (West Virginia University Press, 2023). A recent resident of the Sundress Academy for the Arts, she lives in her hometown Boston, working as an advocate for the homeless, and teaching in the PoemWorks community.
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