Diego Isaias Hernández Méndez, Convertiendse en Characoteles / Sorcerers Changing into Their Animal Forms (detail), 2013, oil on canvas. Arte Maya Tz’utujil Collection.
Sickness
Sometimes it feels good.
Layers of fur wrap around me.
My flesh grows heavy.
There is no energy to worry.
The bones & bitterness
grow soft and disappear.
At night, a flower closes.
Inside a caterpillar wheezes
in the sweet, stuffy air.
Poetry
The Inertia of Anxietyby Shuri Kido
Translated from the Japanese by Forrest Gander and Tomoyuki Endo
Poetry
Kim Connell is working on a novel while living in New York. (updated 1977)