Kintsugi Aubade

“Overland Blvd. Flowers” by Holly Willis

after Justin Aoba

Frayed strings of light fall through the glass of orange juice standing solitary on the stainless kitchen counter & you walk in with your dream-kissed hair & even on this last day I cosplay a fork & muster all my points & run them along a thousand edges that I will reattach over a thousand new mornings & even after two lives intertwine & fill with gold & shatter again & again & I’ve finally had enough of staying gold & instead let me gather slivers of tomorrow & shift sky blue & pink-dipped clouds & entire wild prismatic rainbows of color to paint & paint between you & me.

About the author

lae astra is an agender trans artist and writer who calls Tokyo home. Their writing has appeared in Astrolabe, Gone Lawn, Overheard, Star*Line, Strange Horizons, and elsewhere. They are a Pushcart, Best Microfiction, and Rhysling Award nominee. Find them at laeastra.com/links.

About the artist

Holly Willis is a writer and photographer whose work examines the materiality of the image within a broader context of new materialist philosophy and the histories of experimental film, video, and photography with the goal to design encounters with media that spark an embodied sense of curiosity and wonder.