• Before the DMZ

    Cindy Juyoung Ok

    Winter 2024

    Cindy Juyoung Ok is the author of Ward Toward (Yale University Press 2024) and teaches poetry at Kenyon College.

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    Male Beauty

    Richie Hofmann


    When we were very young, your forgiveness
    humiliated me.

    A Midwife is Forbidden from Entering the Temple

    Noel Yu-Jen


           not you not even war
    could open the thighs
           I have opened

    Poppy

    Becky Shirley

    It was surprising to me how quickly we could return to old routines, how we never lost that private shorthand. Something about being back on that same set, with the same props and lines, I guess. My mother still kept my father’s dinner warm and shriveled in an ovenproof dish when he stayed late at the office. My father still stayed late at the office. In my opinion, he lost privileges to that particular freedom when Poppy offed herself, but who am I to dictate what goes on in the closed-off corridors of marriage?

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