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herewith

It’s settled you don’t return.
The ocean rises, a giant
body of fur. However long
the route between a
you and the—I watch, watch,
watch. Watching is my gift.
It takes the sheer will to give
my full attention. The gist
of spring in magnolias
maimed like heads
of young seals. Wrath misspelled
as wreath on sand as sounds
distract. A girl rises
from the trough
with a toy shovel as I watch
the girl turn the shovel up then
down elbow-deep in the throat
of water like Rhea a knife
short of insanity frisking
for god knows
and I do not know what.
I chose my lane
a highway ago. It took me
here, not there, and the water
now stays with me sane.
Picture
Winslow Homer. Northeaster, 1895. Oil on canvas. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Suphil Lee Park is a bilingual writer who grew up in South Korea and was educated at New York University and UT Austin. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Colorado Review, Michigan Quarterly Mixtape, Ploughshares, The Massachusetts Review, and The Missouri Review, among others. Her fiction is forthcoming in J Journal, Storm Cellar, and The Iowa Review. She has received an honorable mention in 2020 Force Majeure Contest and for the 2020 Donald Hall Prize, and was a semi-finalist and finalist for such awards as 2019 River Styx International Poetry Prize, 2020 Dennis Hinrichsen Prize, and 2020 Tomaz Salamun Prize.
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