Maybe an embroidered bird
feels like a rain drizzle
on flushed cheeks. Maybe
it feels like freckles.

Jamie Asaye FitzGerald (she/her) is a Los Angeles-based hapa poet, mother, and arts worker from Hawaii. Her poems have appeared in the American Poetry Review, Works & Days, Poetry Daily, Mom Egg Review, and elsewhere. Her work has also been anthologized in Coiled Serpent: Poets Arising from the Cultural Quakes & Shifts in Los Angeles (Tia Chucha Press, 2016) and Wide Awake: Poets of Los Angeles & Beyond (Beyond Baroque/Pacific Coast Poetry Series, 2015). She earned an MFA in poetry from San Diego State University where she taught creative writing and literature, and a BA in English/Creative Writing from the University of Southern California where she received an Academy of American Poets College Prize and the Edward Moses Poetry Prize. For many years, she has worked with and for creative writers and teaching artists at the nonprofit Poets & Writers. Find her on Instagram @jamiefitzwrites.