[Let the record show it]


Let the record show it
was because I wanted nothing

that I pursued so much more
There wasn’t a hole within me

Terrified men make myths out of
what they don’t know. I knew

the power of what I already had.
Once I was like you—

ignoring the hunger among us

Then I turned to my hunger
And gave it my life

Reprinted with permission from Come Again? by Alyssa N. Moore, published by the University of Chicago Press. © 2026 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved."

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Alyssa Moore is the author of the chapbook WET MEDIA. She is an intermedia poet and an editor for Ghost Proposal, a journal for poetry and work outside traditional notions of genre. She was the inaugural winner of Poetry magazine’s Editors Prize for Visual Poetry. Her debut collection Come Again? will be published by the University of Chicago Press in October 2026.