Published in Issue 62.3: Summer 2023
There are many ways to resolve
Come to think of it
A wound refusing to scatter
A method to escape capture
Elusion was the gift her father’s silence imparted
Departure a precipice buried in the body
Crenellature of sinew visible from space
And imparting, made resonant
Above, decayed embattlements withheld by lichen
Deep see, deep see, abling the leakage
Absolve me for thinking him forgivable
At the masseuse, dug into and weeping
Dewish in a fervent distress
There will be no release except for shattering
Salt blue, salt blue, blue
Born in the year of the metal goat, ANNI LIU is the author of Border Vista (Persea Books), which won the Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize and was a New York Times Best Poetry Book of 2022. She’s the recipient of an Undocupoets Fellowship, a Gregory Djanikian Scholarship from The Adroit Journal, and residencies at Civitella Ranieri and the Anderson Center. She’s an editor at Graywolf Press.
