Recession

By J.A. Pak

—in hindsight even the way you carelessly hung a picture has symbolic meaning— 
a way of crying the tears flowing back and through inception because the heart has to have a road map if not towards a future back to a past with sign posts obscured in that glare of happiness

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On Writing a Sijo in English

By J.A. Pak

Toes and heels are cut to fit shoes belonging to another
(caught between the syllables, swollen longing, burnt dehiscence).
In Siberia they say breath can freeze and fall to the ground.

Note: a sijo is a classic Korean poetry form

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A Pushcart Prize and Best Small Fictions nominee, J.A. Pak is the author of Chaos Back to Me. Her writing has been published in Litro, Lunch Ticket, Joyland, etc. More of her work can be seen at Triple Eight Palace of Dreams & Happiness.