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Three Poems by Beth Eunhee Hong: bruises, new speech, quiet sunshine.
The three poems that follow—bruises, saemal, and quiet sunshine—are written as a conversation with what resists easy language. They move through questions of identity, memory, and the quieter afterlives of trauma: how harm imprints itself in the body and how to translate the seemingly untranslatable.