Poetry

Dispellations: Reverb

by Anna Maria Hong


& they said,

let there be sound:

a brush of breeze to brisk the

spirit trees

a burr in the lattice of the lyricist’s

utter a snort

of laughter ever after the scent of ice

lacing under foot

let there be a tree of ruby fruit

let the asp be the ambassador
of touch

the ineluctable rush of

diamonds on bark


let the tongue part

acid-sugar-syntax-sharp


let song susurrate

dark to dark



Anna Maria Hong is the author of Age of Glass, winner of the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award and the Cleveland State University Poetry Center’s First Book Poetry Competition, the novella H & G, winner of the A Room of Her Own Foundation’s Clarissa Dalloway Book Prize, and Fablesque, winner of Tupelo Press’s Berkshire Prize. Her writing appears or is forthcoming in Colorado Review, The Common, Plume, Ecotone, the Hopkins Review, Smartish Pace, Poetry Daily, The Best American Poetry, and other publications. She is an assistant professor at Mount Holyoke College.

FROM Volume 70, Number 2

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