Shirley Geok-lin Lim is the author of more than ten books, including poetry collections, short-story collections, critical works, a memoir, and a novel. Her forthcoming poetry collection is The Irreversible Sun (West End Press, 2015). Lim is research professor in the English department at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
The pool whirrs suddenly, and the bluebottom stirs, like the blue
in the sky when clouds sail across its seas.The tangerine sapling may be
dying, hasn’t grown in two months. Frondson palms are limp and brown.
Paradise is thirsty this November. [...]
Here and there occasionalas navels and avocados droppedby the path, scarlet cardinals,puppies, squirrels, and dodo birds pop
on front yards—pressed resin, pressedtin, all kinds of acrylic from China.Someone loves them no lessthan the animals tha [...]
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