EJ Koh is the author of memoir The Magical Language of Others (Tin House, 2020) and the poetry collection A Lesser Love. She earned her MFA in poetry and the translation of Korean poetry from Columbia University and is a PhD candidate in English language and literature at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Tiger Balm and Other Poems

by EJ Koh


Tiger Balm

Yellow pears, basketfuls, relate to distance
between the you and the me—mu.

Startling up as you walk goosefooted
through my door. I am heavy.


I feel the continent under me. I am 99
percent hydrocarbon.
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