Blue Fly
Hyejung Kook
Honor to you
vital decomposer
metallic blue
nectar drinker
clear-winged
pollinator
white wriggler
eater of flesh
poikilothermic
forensic gift
teacher
of non-attachment
Hyejung Kook’s poetry has most recently appeared or is forthcoming in Hyphen Magazine, The Indianapolis Review, Prairie Schooner, Pleiades, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, and wildness, Other works include an essay in The Critical Flame and Flight, a chamber opera libretto. She is a Fulbright grantee and a Kundiman fellow.