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 (수필리박 / 秀筆李朴) is a writer and translator from South Korea. She is the author of two poetry collections, All That’s in Bloom Is in Flames (forthcoming from Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2027), and Present Tense Complex (Conduit Books & Ephemera, 2021); and one poetry chapbook, Still Life (Factory Hollow Press, 2023). She also translated An Unraveling of One, an anthology of pre-20th-century Korean women’s poetry (forthcoming from TRP, 2027). Her work has appeared in The Kenyon Review, The New Republic, Poetry, and elsewhere.
