Joshua Edwin

Joshua Edwin lives in New York and works at a hospital. He lived for a year in Seoul, a city that provided him with warm hospitality, countless fascinating cultural encounters, and nearly limitless inspiration for poems set in bathrooms.

The Bathrooms

The bathrooms here are grotesquely fantastic, Like circus performers in tattered elastic, They lurk in the tapered-off corners of buildings, Some squatting in shadows, some sparkling in new wings, Some chatting garrulously in dark passages, One surely filthy enough to be blasphemous, Another, carved from black granite and marble, Moves beyond style with an elegant [...]