Vol. I · No. 24 · The Weekly Issue · From Key West to the Panhandle
The FloridianReporting, fiction, criticism, poetry, and cartoons — from the peninsula
Poetry · Poem (Translated From an Invented Korean)
Translated by Lily Bao from a Korean original that does not exist.
On the neighbor's lanai
there is a chair
that has been empty
for eleven years.
In the eleventh year,
a lizard
climbed onto the arm
and stayed,
briefly,
as if trying it out.
This is what I know
about grief:
it is a chair
that the lizards
will eventually,
briefly,
sit in.
Poem (Translated From an Invented Floridian-Timucuan)
An imagined survival of an early northern-interior landscape.
Poem (Translated From an Invented Gulf-Patois)
A short lyric on the southern-most harbor at dawn.
Poem (Translated From an Invented Calusa-Vernacular)
A voice from the shell-heaps of Estero Bay.
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