“:” (pronounced "colon") works to discard its apparent veil of parataxis—first by anastomosing the debased “one-liners” into a redemptively interconnected aggregate; secondly by glitching into a rondo in which the ghost of the same essential phrase comes to undergird each moment of enumerative discretion. The poem is the centerpiece of the upcoming first volume of a broader project titled “The Total Spiritual Refection.”

Colin Leemarshall lives in South Korea. He runs the print-on-demand press Erotoplasty Editions, which sells innovative and idiosyncratic books of poetry at cost price. His translation of Lee Sumyeong’s Just Like is due out with Black Ocean in 2024.

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