From Crown

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from Crown Jimin Seo (bio) VII 방 And triumphs all rooms you enter마 even if the work is badly done and다 the motto is good-for-nothing and 방 even if a kiss is mist on a sore back and마 something in me breaks into a center다 -fold of soft money on glossier lovers 불 why not our bodies vanish and빛 re-vanish into lightning, voodoo, and시 this last contract we choose to enter. 피 Do I eat at the dark as the wild fox eats어 a Spartan girl through her back나 and exits, bloody snout, into the woods?네 What are the small games you hunt to live. What animal eats me so you too may live. [End Page 10] VIII 니 What animal eats me so you too may live?가 Dry peppers to pad his shoes––his wife–– light of his feet, ready what a good wife살 is told to do: help him be his mount, live수 under contract of a pen and make a sieve있 of my throat and quietly bray, m y l i f e.게 And this is what my boy sees: a bad life is a bad marriage is a bad wife. Please,어떤 here is my arm, take it. The woman who clothes you brings down a knife짐 and cuts off what feeds you: my arm승 as a translation of fate is where a man속 is the swan but only I must change my life.에 Light my own feet on fire. Do some necessary harm. 집을 만드니 [End Page 11] IX 발 Light my own feet on fire. Do some necessary harm.에 This is my history or is it just money: petrol, candy, a standard oriental car. How charming불 to let a man's pistol cock and watch patrol을 rummage my body and arm a quiet blindness in me and let damage slip out of time.띠고 What is it I'll pay for now? Neighbor I miss my car. Neighbor I burn the road in wine.누 It's dinner time neighbor. Won't you stay please구 stay. If I run out of my body and let the husk한 divide like the segments of an orange, release테 me from acid, sugar, this hunk's terminal musk 피 will I light your feet on fire? Brother of course해 you are not there. Your life is a matter of course.를 선물할까 [End Page 12] Jimin Seo Jimin Seo lives between Manhattan and Cochecton, NY with his partner, Gabriel. He teaches at Baruch College and is co-editor of Couplet Poetry. He received his MFA from Columbia University and was Richard Howard's assistant. His poem in response to artist Shaun Leonardo's exhibition, The Breath of Empty Space, was recently on view at The Bronx Museum. Copyright © 2022-2023 Pleiades and Pleiades Press ...