Kien Lam is a Kundiman fellow and Indiana University MFA alumnus. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming from the American Poetry Review, The Rumpus, The Nation, and elsewhere.
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Silhouettes
A crow perches inside me.
Actually, it is a whale. It is hard to tell
by touch alone. Nothing I own ever looks
me properly in the eye. Sometimes
a loud caw at dusk feels
like the largest mammal on Earth.
A deep breath out the...