Blue Fly

Honor to you
vital decomposer
metallic blue
nectar drinker
clear-winged
pollinator
white wriggler
eater of flesh
poikilothermic
forensic gift
teacher
of non-attachment

First appeared in Lotus Magazine

Hyejung Kook’s poetry has most recently appeared or is forthcoming in Pleiades, Prairie Schooner, The Indianapolis Review, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Hyphen Magazine, wildness, and Glass: A Journal of Poetry. Other works include an essay in The Critical Flame and Flight, a chamber opera libretto. She is a Fulbright grantee and a Kundiman fellow. Follow her poetry at hyejungkook.tumblr.com and on Twitter @hyejungkook.