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Rebecca Liu is a fellow at the Michener Center for Writers. Her recent poems can be found in VOLT, Web Conjunctions, and Gulf Coast.
See how the firmament loosens
like a clod of earth how the horizon
crackles like two skulls wrapped in velvet
Adaptations that preserve Shakespeare’s wit and carpe diem vulgarity.
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