Gone as the past is not we meet in dreams. Your face, the same. My eyes, so changed. Your laughter, a bit of confetti. Do I make you? But I sleep. How undream-like you’ve become: your sleek forehead and cheeks, the same well-oiled, hua cha smell. The blossoms still stick to your lips, to the […]
for Lee Herrick You hold the rose aloft. You elevate. If root is a secret and rose a prize, you are the telling. In you the two are sisters. Throat of happiness, singer of flames, music of wings and kites, your pinnate leaves evoke a strange bird’s flight. Green road, you begin in darkness and […]
Jennifer Tseng talks about a poem she wishes she’d written, Monica Ferrell‘s “Sacrifice.”
Jennifer Tseng talks about being inspired by poet Lee Herrick to write her poem “Stem of the Hybrid Perpetual.”