April 26, 2019
Yi Won
Translated from the Korean by Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello & E.J. Koh

 
Plugs are unthreading
from every part of my body
suspended like umbilical cords
I open the door and go outside
Foul air
clusters at the end of each plug
people everywhere
walk with plugs suspended from their bodies
charged by the world's rage
in the spaces between
pebbles clothed in the air float buoyantly 
from the journal WAXWING
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I took an introductory poetry writing class in my sophomore year of college because my schedule allowed it; I had mostly downed novels up until then. We were not assigned this Dickinson poem in class, and I can’t remember exactly how I came upon it. I was familiar with many of her famous poems, but something about this one made me feel both wonderfully repaired (from what? why?) and restive.
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