“That Are,” by Sandra Lim

Poetry faculty member Sandra Lim recently had a poem featured in The New Republic. Read an excerpt of “That Are” below:

That Are

Then I became this stupid, trilling thing:
what I desired was to become obscene.

All the things I had loved up to then
fell away in the long struggle between winter and spring.

And then there was my body, inside of my soul.
It had different aspirations.

What form does it take without the soul?

Find the rest of this poem at The New Republic.