An excerpt from

L I G A T U R E _ S T R A I N
By Kim Koga • September 2011 • $3
Design by Eric Butler

white seeps in for that webbing is thin.
a balance for your swim bladder that
always kept you too low or too high.
a rudder for your swimming mind to
feast its jealousies on.

Kim Koga recently completed an MFA at the University of Notre Dame. While completing her degree she worked as Action Books' editorial assistant, co-edited two MFA publications The Bend and Re:Visions, and curated a reading series with fellow MFA student CJ Waterman.

She received her BA in Literature and Writing from California State University San Marcos where she co-founded the Creative Writing Community and Workshop, their publication Oh, Cat, the Student Reading Series, and interned with 1913 Press. Her publications include Lantern Review, Triton College's Ariel, and 1913: a journal of forms. This is her first chapbook.