Hal Y. Zhang is a lapsed physicist who splits her time between the east coast of the United States and the Internet. Her poems are in or forthcoming from jubilat, The Southampton Review, and Kweli Journal. Her language-and-loss chapbook AMNESIA was published by the Newfound Emerging Poets Series.





Hal Y. Zhang

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I am peerless in regret. over all sets of parameters (all the ways one might hem and haw to Past Self) my composite score has won, said my doctor. when you sit in your room eyes tearing at worldly flights, are you afraid to miss sunsets? does the wall cause more fear than sulfur lights? a perfect eight out of eight. here’s the brochure to know exactly what you should do like the gutters knowing the rain. believe in the impossibility of the gravity of certainty remember ceramics class: make more pots not good pots. the paralysis of cold wetness, potential is meaningless until you choose enough. these are the soft finger slots the fire will tame.




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