"Romance #1" by Eunsong Kim

[View this email on a browser]( [Forward to a friend]( [facebook-icon]( [tumblr-icon]( [twitter-icon]( June 28, 2019 [Romance #1]( [Eunsong Kim]( like some 14 year old girl waiting for her crush to glance back i keep waiting for capitalism to end but it won’t end my adult life lover states on what will end: Libraries Birds Retirement Recess Sprinting during recess Hispid Hares Starfish shaped like stars Inconvenience Wrinkles Sunken cheeks Living corals Protests Anti-Nuclear Proliferation Non-Aggression Pacts Dragonflies Mangosteen DMZs Trade Embargos Leopards, all kinds Sawfins Rewilding Infiltration Plot/Dreams Oak, Trees. Partulina Variabilis Partulina Splendida (-------) Violence Prevention Programs News. News: Might a few jellyfish survive— counting till revelations becomes part of— [Like this on Facebook]( [Share via Twitter]( Copyright © 2019 Eunsong Kim. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on June 28, 2019, by the Academy of American Poets. [Kim reads "Romance #1."]( About This Poem “I’ve been writing and adding to this poem for several years now. The poem is part challenge and provocation, part tribute and elegy to how life and extinction continue to be fantasized. It is titled ‘Romance #1’ because romance is an all-encompassing venture: all the emotions, all the body. ‘#1’ because this is only the first part, yes? This cannot be the ending. Yes?” —Eunsong Kim [Eunsong Kim]( Eunsong Kim is the author of gospel of regicide (Noemi Press, 2017) and the co-translator, with Sung Gi Kim, of Kim Eon Hee’s Have You Been Feeling Blue These Days? (Noemi Press, 2019). She is an assistant professor in the English department at Northeastern University. [gospel of regicide]( Poetry by Kim [gospel of regicide]( (Noemi Press, 2017) "All Money Is A Matter of Belief" by Carmen Giménez Smith [read-more]( "Letting the Emptiness Become My Government" by Marcus Jackson [read-more]( "Quarantine" by Franny Choi [read-more]( June Guest Editor: Samiya Bashir Thanks to [Samiya Bashir](, author of Field Theories (Nightboat Books, 2017), who curated Poem-a-Day for this month’s weekdays. Read a [Q&A with Bashir]( about her curatorial approach this month and find out more about our [guest editors for the year.]( [make a one-time donation]( [illustration]( [Small-Blue-RGB-poets.org-Logo]( Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit [Poets.org](. You are receiving this e-mail because you elected to subscribe to our mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe, please click [here](. © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038