Reunion (Excerpts)

I have never done this before, / picked out a hanbok slash been her daughter.



Judgment Day

This is everything and nothing / I've never heard before.


Every six months or so

There are more emails from a series of strangers. They have questions. They’re confused by my branch on their family tree.




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A photo of five transparent mannequins from the waist up against a gray background.

(Landscape of) A Body

When I imagine warping my body to wring the pain out, it’s my skull I imagine remolding. I screw my head off like a bottle cap. An extreme: after breaking the ice that’s formed at the surface, I plunge bone into crisp water, freezing pain.


A green rice paddy extends into the horizon

Grown Up Girls

Where can a girl go, but to a husband’s home? Somewhere in cities, impractical idiots dream of a revolution—our own land, our own country—but here in the village, there are only mountains and marriage.