A note about the work "Foreshadow Work" from Anni Liu for the Michigan Quarterly Review's Spring 2025 issue: I was finally able to access effective therapy last year, and that has meant engaging in “shadow work,” or integrating the parts of the self that have been hidden or rejected. I realized poetry has always been a site of shadow work for me, foreshadowing the work I would do in therapy, especially around the alienation of having been an alien. Some of the language in the poem is borrowed from therapy, and some of it is punny and playful, which is maybe an homage to Harryette Mullen and especially her incredible book Sleeping with the Dictionary. I was also happily surprised to arrive at the aspirational ending that remixes the famous line attributed to Terence.