Orbit: The Asian American Issue
Volume 15:3, Summer 2014
Frac/tions
Our bodies teach us frac/
tions. Our minds too. Sir
excuse me, Im only half
awake. Half German, half
Filipino, I used to say. It
gave me a crack to stand on.
JoAnn Balingit is the author of Words for House Story (Word Tech Editions, 2013) and Forage (Wings Press, 2011). Her poems and prose have appeared in Best New Poets, Diagram, Harpur Palate, Salt Hill, Smartish Pace, Verse Daily, and most recently in a feature at The Mackinac. She is a 2014 Bread Loaf Bakeless Camargo Foundation fellow in fiction, at work on a collection of hybrid stories. She serves as Delaware's Poet Laureate, and is an assistant editor with YesYes Books. http://joannbalingit.org