Blue Fly

Hyejung Kook

Honor to you

vital decomposer

metallic blue

nectar drinker

clear-winged

pollinator

white wriggler

eater of flesh

poikilothermic

forensic gift

teacher

of non-attachment

 

Hyejung Kook’s poetry has most recently appeared or is forthcoming in Hyphen Magazine, The Indianapolis Review, Prairie Schooner, Pleiades, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, and wildness, Other works include an essay in The Critical Flame and Flight, a chamber opera libretto. She is a Fulbright grantee and a Kundiman fellow.

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