she sees the air inside each animalshapethe airthat is haunted,into the arc of eveningwaterpetals of the moon
The Hour of the Rat
Brandon Shimoda
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- March 18, 2021
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Brandon Shimoda’s recent books include The Grave on the Wall (City Lights), which received the PEN Open Book Award, and The Desert (The Song Cave). His next book, on the afterlife of Japanese American incarceration, received a Creative Nonfiction Grant from the Whiting Foundation, and is forthcoming from City Lights.
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