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Great River Review
ISSUE 67 MASTHEAD | 2020-21   EDITOR PETER CAMPION    MANAGING EDITOR MELISSA CUNDIEFF    FEATURE EDITOR TARIK DOBBS    GENRE EDITORS (POETRY, PROSE) MARIA BOWLER, NADIA D’RAINAH, T
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REVIEW, The Tradition, Jericho Brown
Patrick Davis
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TO CONSTRUCT ETERNITY

the parent is trying to complete before dawn

a final human stairway


past moon and stars

the child will one day climb


like a crib’s bars, only to find

in a pool of sunlight


a toy hammer.

Ed Bok Lee is the author of three books of poetry, most recently Mitochondrial Night (Coffee House Press, March 2019). The son of North and South Korean emigrants—his mother originally a refugee from what is now North Korea; his father was raised during the Japanese colonial period and Korean War in what is now South Korea, Lee grew up in South Korea, North Dakota, and Minnesota, and was educated there and later on both U.S. coasts, Russia, South Korea, and Kazakhstan. Honors include the American Book Award, Minnesota Book Award, Asian American Literary Award (Members’ Choice), and a PEN/Open Book Award. He currently teaches at Metropolitan State University, and for two decades has taught in programs for youth and the incarcerated.