SWITCHBLADE
Michael Chang | Poetry
grand jury refuses to indict ham sandwich
throwing itself at federal agent
jailhouse snitch sez she was offered pills
a grand piano for favorable testimony
her husband is a baby
he went to hell
jefferson market clocktower
where we bump, tickle the wire
thick scrotal sacks
mulled over for days
MICHAEL CHANG (they/them) is the author of THINGS A BRIGHT BOY CAN DO (Coach House Books, 2025) and HEROES (Temz Review/845 Press, 2026). They won the Poetry Project’s Brannan Prize and edited Lambda Literary’s Emerge anthology. Their work has appeared in such publications as AGNI, the American Poetry Review, the Greensboro Review, Harvard Review, the Iowa Review, and POETRY. They judged Cream City Review’s 2025 Prize in Poetry. They live in Manhattan.