A Poem from Monica Kim, Innaugural Jane Kenyon Prize Winner
A year after finishing ESL I scratch pencil against paper, writing in my mother tongue.
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Poetry
What’s Blue and Huge?
The ocean’s great to look at
because there’s enough of it.
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Remembering
This poem originally appeared in the Spring 1980 Issue of MQR. It is available via our archives. Image Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons: By Abhijit Kar Gupta from Kolkata, India – Kans Grass (কাশ ফুল, kash phool)
Florida Water Sources and the Best Seeing
Headwater. Mouth of the river. So hard to understand where it starts and where it ends, to remember the headwater tiny, a trickle, a bubble up out of dry ground, and the mouth—wide as a country. With greater ease I learned the dark swimming moons beside my rowboat in Crystal River were sea cows. Manatees.
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During a Son’s Dangerous Illness
“What becomes of the past if the future snaps off, brittle, the present left as a jagged edge opening on nothing?”
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The Loneliness of Animals
The Loneliness of Animals I don’t think I know what it feels like I know I don’t to drag one’s self so slowly “like a zombie” down a cracked hard, rock-cut creek bed in Illinois to be lifted still churning one’s legs to be the subject of such testing: to be found
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Hand Washing
I would wash my hands
After opening the refrigerator
And looking in at the lunchmeat and tomatoes,
The blimp-shaped pickles in cloudy water.