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Contributed By: (WANLI) Mari Furukawa
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Behind our house, a soft bog Digested things that died there. I tested it with my shoes, Expected hands upraised Or at least a riot of worms. Our nervous dog skittered As if she anticipated births. In that quagmire smother Was a sign of spring. The swamp, my father said, Was spreading, bleeding out From […]
She wasn’t sure what happened, hearing the news— she was buying a pack of smokes at the corner (not for herself, she didn’t smoke, for her father). She wasn’t sure what happened, hearing the news: a girlfriend was in Lenox Hill—some car hit her (only later, my mom learned about Honolulu). She wasn’t sure what […]
The poems leave me curious about what it means to create these distinctions and what we can learn from our edges of “self.”