This week Jack and Connor tackle a poem of Connor's choosing, "Orphanotrophia" by Sun Yung Shin. [Orphanotrophia] By: Sun Yung Shin A broad black market The women are urnfields The children are binding out Dark in the trains, a burning mouth to eat a shovelful of black diamonds Leak blood, trickle milk, time weeps Going over the falls Washing to shore, done and undone Law-and-order, over the falls Body paint, black ink and brush, state and subject Eat silver and sugar Tobacco hair and a hospital all in gold leaf Baby Jesus in the alley, bright baby in a bullet Time branching everywhere like hair Custody this antebellum apprentice Rows of graves—keep spilling the liquor City of the dead, written from right to left The women stand image and likeness The women occur copy and heir The children, recorded, a homestead of lung and eye Museums of burials, the underground of giving birth to birth Be sure to like Close Talking on facebook at facebook.com/CloseTalking, follow on twitter at twitter.com/CloseTalking, and write to us at [email protected]. We want to hear your thoughts on Orhanotrophia and all other poems we have covered. If you have suggestions for poems we could discuss in the future, we want to hear that too!

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