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Brandon Shimoda

Brandon Shimoda is the author of several books of poetry and prose, including Hydra Medusa (Nightboat Books, 2023) and The Grave on the Wall (City Lights, 2019). His collection of essays on the memory/forgetting of Japanese American incarceration, The Afterlife Is Letting Go, is out from City Lights.

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10/11

It was Lisa’s birthday    She turned 143   we celebrated with pretzels and watched the Descendants of man fishing [a] manmade lake   The water green    the sky tender, night trains. strawberries.   wind-stunted ...
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The Javelina

I saw the javelina from afar It looked familiar    like a neighbor eating rocks at the edge of the grass,    framed by the grass and several barrels of patriotic flowers   The javelina’s front leg was ...