Excerpt from “Paris Zuihitsu”

Allison Albino is a Filipina American poet and French teacher who lives and writes in Harlem. Her work has appeared in Narrative, The Rumpus, Poetry Northwest, Indiana Review, The Common, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley, The Kenyon Review, and Tin House. She teaches at the Dalton School, in New York City.