Kimiko Hahn
Seeing Someone Seeing

Someone with a cellphone camera

noticed a whale in the Buttermilk Channel

and clicked a shot of its aura,

just a random someone with a camera.

How often do we see phenomena--

a robin or turtle hatching? or an angel

of a child with a camera

capturing her whale in the Buttermilk Channel?

 

 
Found In Volume 49, No. 03
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Kimiko Hahn
About the Author

Kimiko Hahn's most recent collection is Foreign Bodies (W.W. Norton, 2020). A number of her collections contain zuihitsu, most notably The Narrow Road to the Interior (W.W.Norton, 2006).  Hahn teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing & Literary Translation at Queens College, City University of New York.