Don’t— I don’t remember if it rained that day. What I do remember was the smoke in the distance. No, not the sight of smoke, the smell, that piercing odor similar to the first few stages of decay, of rot—and maybe rot wasn’t so far off, maybe it was a corpse that burned. […]
Jeddie Sophronius
JEDDIE SOPHRONIUS is the author of the poetry collections Interrogation Records (Gaudy Boy, 2024), Happy Poems & Other Lies (Codhill Press, 2024), Love & Sambal (The Word Works, 2024), and the chapbook Blood·Letting (Quarterly West, 2023). A Chinese-Indonesian writer from Jakarta, they received their MFA from the University of Virginia. The recipient of the 2023 Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize, their poems have appeared in The Cincinnati Review, The Iowa Review, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere.
