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Jane Yeh is the author of The Ninjas (2012) and Marabou (2005), both published by Carcanet in the UK. Her next collection is forthcoming in 2019.
Poetry
In the palace of the cats, we minused and gnawed.
We burrowed and simulated, skirting the wormholes.
In the shiny halls, cubist paintings looked down on us
Like startled Martians; lavish flower arrangements loomed
From the persistent étagères. Our peril
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