3/12/25
I’m sorry if I stopped
writing so beautifully
your hand no longer
in mine boyfriend
doomscrolling during
the ron padgett reading
no afters only train
Truck Train Tractor
partied my way into debt
dropout genius glib
summer is in full swing
eileen requested the penguins
although we aren’t in brooklyn
wine bar to wine bar fuck
this
I just want pedals & to see you
ride by with a messenger bag
over your shoulder carrying
cortazar’s worlds merge into
mine I used to ride tractors
through sunflower fields now
I’m engaged in a psychodrama
that changes every day poems
make the perfect pocket novel
Ashley D. Escobar is a writer and filmmaker from San Francisco, residing in New York City. Eileen Myles selected her debut poetry collection GLIB (2025) as the Changes Book Prize winner. She graduated from Bennington College and holds an MFA in fiction from Columbia University. Her work has appeared in The Drift, The Brooklyn Rail, and Hobart, among others.
