Winter 2022 | Anna Maria Hong Reads "Vladivostok & Conscience" – MQR Sound
Anna Maria Hong reads her poem "Vladivostok & Conscience" from MQR's Winter 2022 issue.
All books are made of 20th-century
values. What is the coin of the region?
By the bridge, a scent of honey. Show me
your registration. The man
in the booth lifts his arm. The bridge is wood
and cracks.
Another building of red-brown brick
and unknown function.
The lake with its mirrored glaze
and rippling gray depths. And the brown leaves crackle
it’s over, it’s over, it’s over.
For more from the Winter 2022 issue of MQR, you can purchase the issue here.
