to start a poem from its scissored-off title but

annoying is a word of many definitions like blue

can mean drowning   in well-deep despair

or cerulean blush   of a clear autumn sky

annoying   the sudden  soul-rash of swift

irritation  a sneeze (uninvited)   a bad habit

(quick-sighted)    a euphemism for

you knifed me    you bastard  a way to bleed

more nicely   or a way    to flag something

too bright to absorb    like my sister

to my mother sometimes at night:

you’re so pretty   you give me a headache

yes love  can be so damn        annoying

more simple   more compact

more calmly concrete   like chewing a wedge

of sundial   if you don’t have the mouth

to chew sun   a word   even strangers

can relish     Koreans I’ve loved

who fear English    like a snake

have held this burred word without harm

cracked its sweetness   like gold flesh

of chestnuts   in the winter   어노잉

uh-no-ing      a knowing     anointing

tremble of melody   belled in the throat

bare ankles tickled crimson by dogweed

soft-bristled, fine-toothed, persistent

you’re annoying: disorder of laughter,

dashed through by grief

you’re annoying: fuzzy frenzy

of restless and reel

you’re annoying: an anointing

of many-threaded hue—

covered well    dripping blood 

          dazzled sky