Tipton Poetry Journal – Spring 2021
Most Everything that Happens is a Hyphen
Suphil Lee Park We’re apples and oranges = nothing is in applepie order. Just as as if and as in. As in, what’s paperthin seldom makes a paperweight. Say the idea of God arrives in a body as speculators arrive in a body, worried: God willing leave no one at sea when the ship is sinking Joke’s on us. The apple of our eye moves Adam’s apple. Who’s to say an apple doesn’t fall for a Newton far from the tree. Suphil Lee Park is the author of Present Tense Complex, winner of the Marystina Santiestevan Prize. She spent 9/14 of her life all over the Korean peninsula before landing in the American Northeast. She graduated from New York University with a BA in English and from the University of Texas at Austin with an MFA in Poetry. Her poems and short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Ploughshares, Poetry Northwest, the Iowa Review, the Massachusetts Review, Writer’s Digest, and the Yale Review, among many others. You can find more about her at: https://suphil-lee-park.com/
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