Michael Shiaw-Tian Liaw

Michael Shiaw-Tian Liaw is currently living in flux, in between countries, in between projects, in between communities. He has an MFA from UC Irvine, and his work has appeared or is forthcoming

Repetitions

Oct 8, 2015 2 min read Poetry

1. I wake up that morning and say to her, “I never loved you.” This is so she’ll hate me and revise our six months as lies: every instance I’d said

Fasting

Dec 4, 2014 1 min read Poetry

To do without the body’s basic appetite primes one’s other wants. Starving and sand-colored, a desert hides its critters, ribbed and moon- thirsty in their lairs. Named after the prayer, Joshua

Fog

Jan 3, 2013 1 min read Poetry

My friends cancel their daughter’s birthday party; the wife is in labor. I wake up lonely for an ex or, since they’re most of the women I know, friends’ wives. The