of a bed birthmarked
with espresso spills
& stairs stacked up
like well-thumbed field books
& taxis straying out of traffic
takes over the longer night ahead
where you’re carried
into his bedroom & placed
like a finger
in another woman
where earthworms drown
on your watch
& a courtyard David lifts the blade
of his marble palm
against the pouring
another David feeling
out the marrow
of distant snow.
Suphil Lee Park (수필 리 박 / 秀筆 李 朴) is the author of the poetry collection, Present Tense Complex, winner of the Marystina Santiestevan Prize (Conduit Books & Ephemera 2021), and a poetry chapbook, Still Life, selected by Ilya Kaminsky as the winner of the 2022 Tomaž Šalamun Prize, forthcoming from Factory Hollow Press. She also won for her fiction the Indiana Review Fiction Prize. Her recent poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Greensboro Review, the Kenyon Review, and Poetry, among others.
