Finding Borges in Sarah Howe’s “An Error, A Ghost"

"An Error, A Ghost", the thirteen-page poem with twenty-three parts that concludes Sarah Howe's "Foretokens" (2025), begins with an epigraph from "The Garden of Forking Paths" (1941), by Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), and later, in section seven, summarizes that story before concluding: "Elsewhere Borges says / every