Jack’s guest is Burmese-American Bay Area poet Maw Shein Win. Maw’s poetry has appeared in many journals; she was co-founder of “Comet,” a literary, arts and culture magazine and is currently a co-publisher for “Stretcher,” an online arts journal. She has completed residencies at Can Serrat International Art Center in Spain and, locally, at the Headlands Center for the Arts. Her latest book, “Ruins of a glittering palace,” is a collaboration with Los Angeles-based artist Mark Dutcher. Dutcher and Win “explore the idea of loss, the will to live, and how memory fades. They are interested in how events and people are sometimes reduced to just beauty, melancholy, and atmosphere…They have been best friends for over 30 years.”
there there
now here
where a solitary pair
swim in separate circles
the water falls into
circular space
cast away
this year & another year
& another year before
on an island, the sand
& the land
where the pair
made a pact
to swim in separate
tides, trunks,
truncation, a vacation,
now here, not here