Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “Carp / 鲤鱼” by Lisa Shen.

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Carp / 鲤鱼

By Lisa Shen

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Copyright © Aris Keshav

Previously published in Ahoy Literary.

Aris Keshav teaches English to young adults in Tio’tia:ke/Mooniyang/Montréal. His poetry appears in The New Quarterly, The Malahat Review, CV2, The Dalhousie Review (forthcoming), and two chapbooks, and was nominated for the Best New Poets 2026 anthology.

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