Anna Maria Hong
I, Let
From captor to native and cradle to eve,
waking and waving ourselves, our sleeves
in the cosmic breeze that ships us
to shape. O! harness, O! dumb dorsal purpose—
bluesmocking Alice alone in her palace, which happens
to be a hole—to be is to drop & grab
the bottle off the shelf to have something
to peruse along the fall. O! All the world’s a stage
in dishevelment. We bust each increment
to the best of our implement, to be fit is to be
part of the service of render of temper
of hull of fin
O! Lark
O! Manna O! Roll
Anna Maria Hong
Anna Maria Hong is the 2013-14 Visiting Creative Writer at Ursinus College and was the 2010-11 Bunting Fellow in Poetry at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Her poems are recently published and forthcoming in publications including Boston Review, Green Mountains Review, Fence, Fairy Tale Review, Unsplendid, Beloit Poetry Journal, Southwest Review, Mandorla, POOL, The Best American Poetry, and Poetry. She has received residencies from Yaddo, Djerassi, and Valparaiso and teaches poetry writing at the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program.