Abstract
Gill Suphil Lee Park (bio) Keywords Suphil Lee, Park, Hudson River, enumerate, 49, weight, hunger A girl sends 49 Barbie headsbobbing down the Hudson.49 beheaded dolls, some hers, some stolen.When told 49 headsfor safe sail, Gongming invented dumplingsin the shape of human heads, released them underwater.49 days of grievinguntil the soul departs, she was taughtto enumerate. What she hadstays her—the time she had,people she hason her mind, the scentof dishes she's rarely had.They will have herhave them as part of her.Will stay her. How long, a whale's backbone.How long, the echo of its hunger.Bringing food to her mouth: first gesture of lovethat sustained her.The girl hasthis image of a mother—flour-scented homedressgliding past her spine, her pelvis.On the floor, its huskshe can haveover her body but doesn't.Do you hunger too? Rivers barging inlandfade shorelineswith the weight they havecarried. 49 days of havingto mourn before having life back. The headsproclaimed: Let me pass, pass through you who drownin yourself, without havingyou. Like a childsired, every river named irrelevant— [End Page 325] Suphil Lee Park suphil lee park is a bilingual writer who grew up in South Korea. She holds a BA in English from NYU and an MFA in poetry from the University of Texas at Austin. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly Ploughshares, Quarterly West, and The Missouri Review, among many others. Her fiction received an honorable mention in the 2020 Force Majeure Contest and is forthcoming in J Journal, Storm Cellar, and The Iowa Review. Copyright © 2021 The Massachusetts Review, Inc.
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