This poem was written for a planned ekphrastic anthology edited by David Sullivan, and I thank him for the “assignment.” I dearly hope the collection will be realized.

Boston Review online

“A Dusting”

Epiphany Editions Chapbook

“The Cryptic Chamber”

Hanging Loose

“Afterword: The Bamboo Grove Where Various Individuals Mostly Think Aloud” (published as “The Bamboo Grove”)

jubilat

“Object Lessons”

“The Old House Speaks”

“Constant Objection”

Kenyon Review

“Likeness—A Self-Portrait” (published as “Brilliance: A Valentine”)

Los Angeles Review of Books

“Three Charms from Foreign Bodies”

Ploughshares

“Alloy—An Apostrophe for Isamu Noguchi”

Plume

“Hatchlings”

“Divine” (published as “The Diviner”)

Poetry

“The Ashes”

“Foreign Body”

The New Yorker

“After Being Asked if I Write the Occasional Poem”

Quarternote Chapbook series, Sarabande Books

“Sparkly Things” (published as “Father’s Nest”)

The Kiss anthology (WWN, 2018)

“Another Poem for Maude” (published as “For Maude”)

The Yale Review

“The Nest in Winter”

Dedication

When asked, “What does it look like to be an artist?” I said, “My father came home after teaching middle school, ate an early dinner, turned on the tv in the living room, set up his card table, and painted.”

in memory of my father

ALSO BY KIMIKO HAHN

Brain Fever

Toxic Flora

The Narrow Road to the Interior

The Artist’s Daughter

Mosquito and Ant

The Unbearable Heart

Volatile

Earshot

Air Pocket