From Kim Kyung Ju’s Whale and Vapor
In “Midnight Highlighter”
Best regards! Breastbone! Best regards! Come back pitch-black! My poetry rents me the inside of bubbles.
In “A Life Rummaging through Books”
Like a kid lightly placing a pencil inside a spoon holder
it ends.
Kim Kyung Ju, Whale and Vapor (Black Ocean 2020), trans. Jake Levine

















