Susan Hahn is the author of six books of poetry, including the forthcoming Self/Pity. Her first play premiered in February 2005, and her first short story appearred in the Kenyon Review in 2005.
I It begins on a tip of the ear in reality or metaphor— it doesn’t matter. The matter out of which we’re made more determined than any life guide shoved at us by mother or by father. What is this condition? What causes it? What are its sym [...]
Your scar is like a trumpet vine
and by day I am the full sun
pouring over it. At night
I am the eager moon
drawing you up and toward me.
The fragrance you carried with you
in a sachet in your pocket from Hawaii
stays next to me in my writing
room, [...]
I wait for one more call,
your voice soft as the marrow
I'd push my tongue into
then suck and swallow
as a child. Tomorrow I'll hope for an envelope fat with love
or on this autumn evening
when the paper birch outside my window shines
yellow and the [...]
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