In “Last Christmas,” poet Timothy Liu tells a story of old loyalty and new longing with shimmering economy: three people, one car. That these human arrangements are dwarfed by the stark winter landscape doesn’t make the unstable structure of their love triangle any less dangerous.
As Timothy shares in Multi-Verse Episode 12, one wrong word can see you left alone in the moonlight.
“Last Christmas” can be found in Timothy Liu’s collection Down Low And Lowdown: Timothy Liu’s Bedside Bottom-Feeder Blues (Barrow Street Press, 2023).
Multi-Verse is a poetry podcast hosted and produced by Evangeline Riddiford Graham, senior managing editor at Public Seminar. To hear more poets share the poems they don’t usually read aloud, visit Multi-Verse at Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Pocket Casts, SoundCloud, or multiversepoetry.org. For monthly poetry updates direct to your inbox, subscribe to the monthly Multi-Verse newsletter.
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