New Poetry by Yuu Ikeda

Taste

your kiss always tastes like vodka.

i love brandy,

not vodka.

you love vodka,

not brandy.

i love loneliness,

not desire.

you love desire,

not loneliness.

reasons why we kiss.

because i want to feel loneliness.

because you want to feel desire.

- © Yuu Ikeda 2023

Yuu Ikeda (she/they) is a Japan based poet. She loves writing, reading novels, western art, and sugary coffee. She writes poetry on her website. https://poetryandcoffeedays.wordpress.com/. Her latest poetry collection “A Knife She Holds” was published from Newcomer Press. Her Twitter and Instagram : @yuunnnn77