Kōan Brink, born and raised in Minnesota, received an MFA from Columbia University and also studied Buddhist texts and social ethics at Union Theological Seminary. They are the author of the chapbook The End of Lake Superior (above/ground, 2021) and the artist’s book What Sleeps under Lacquer (NECK Press, 2022). Brink teaches at The Cooper Union in New York City and lives in Austin, Texas.

Photograph by Augusta X. Thomson.

Split

An iPoem

by Kōan Brink

Room painted off-white, so the death rattle can lean off

the wall. If it was a color, the rattle’s sound would stick to this world, it’d lay its body against her lungs and try to stay there.
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