Composition 2 — Blackbird Archive

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A poem exploring desire and the body through references to painting and photography, centered on the Cupid's bow.

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Dorothy Chan’s work has been published in Plume , 34th Parallel , and Day One . She was a 2014 finalist for the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship. Chan is a poetry editor at Hayden's Ferry Review . Photo by Francis Chan