Another Way of Explaining It

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Duy Doan

 

A fine way of looking at things—

me observing you kissing me.

 

How decent of me

to pretend I am shocked by you.

 

You’re the inverted foot that starts a line:

that start of a climb that

begins with falling.

Duy Doan is the author of We Play a Game, winner of the 2017 Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize. His work has appeared in Poetry, Poetry Northwest, Slate, and TriQuarterly. A Kundiman fellow, he received an MFA from Boston University.