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A poem by Conan Tan

highly commended in the 2024 Oxford Poetry Prize

Sep 11, 2025
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HEART ATTACK

The morning after it happens, your mother
rereschedules your death. Generous woman

that she is, offering you second bones
and new soil. The temperature yawning back

into ligament, lung, the…

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