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Dream of Ink Brush Calligraphy
In prayer:
quiet opening,
my artery is a thin
shadow on paper—
margin of long grass,
ruderal hair, sister to this
not yet part of our bodies
your lyric corpus of seed
in rough drafts of pine ash,
chaogao or grass calligraphy
in rough drafts of pine ash—
your lyric corpus of seed
not yet part of our bodies:
ruderal hair, sister to this
margin of long grass,
shadow on paper,
my artery is a thin
quiet opening
in prayer.
Source: Poetry (November 2010).
Biography
Karen An-hwei Lee is the author of Phyla of Joy (Tupelo Press, 2012), Ardor (Tupelo Press, 2008) and In Medias Res (Sarabande Books, 2004). She lives and teaches in southern California, where she is a novice harpist.
Poems by Karen An-hwei Lee
Poem Categorization
SUBJECT Living, The Body, Arts & Sciences, Painting & Sculpture
POET’S REGION U.S., Western
Poetic Terms Free Verse, Ekphrasis
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