Thanks to All Lit Up for this interview with David Ly about the poem “eels” from his sophomore poetry collection DREAM OF ME AS WATER: “I spent days thinking about [eels], and eventually just sat down writing how it felt thinking about them for so long: like they were pouring from my body. The shape of the poem was an idea I came up with to make it resemble the slithery body of an eel, further showing how ingrained they were in my mind and onto the page.” Check out the entire interview here: David Ly on All Lit Up