Susan is a Korean-American poet and MFA candidate at the Writer’s Foundry of St. Joseph’s College. Her work has appeared in Gianthology, The Shore and The Gravity of the Thing. Her coordinates for hom
Vortices of verse traverse the universe
and traipse across the mind of my eye,
intimating places I’d seen in sleepwalk.
Reckoning with irreconcilable relativity,
I seek the silhouette of a spitting image
Before the matchmaker braided our fates
Appa was a romantic, she tells me,
a would-be Jesuit priest—long past now
but some mornings, house dormant, I find him
genuflecting on the tile floor