- Yin, Yang
All daylong streaksraw sky likepearlunder tree bark
iPhonesmake mensofterwomenharder
glisteningclawedcloudslike teacupslike swords. [End Page 42]
Kirstin Allio is the author of a short-story collection, Clothed Female Figure (Dzanc), and a novel, Garner (Coffee House), for which she was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize for First Fiction. Honors include the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Award, a PEN/O. Henry Prize, and fellowships from Brown University’s Howard Foundation and the MacDowell Colony. Her fiction, essays, and poems appear most recently in AGNI, Southern Review, Seneca Review, Conjunctions, and are forthcoming in the Common and Fence.