I tried on the house, its shutters dressed white
See it there wasting behind trees, the light and with it
Our looking into a field beyond four corners of a frame
Music begins in the body, moves out
I appear myself in public moving nearer the bronze fountain
People gather up their people, half in-scene
Placed by principles of natural order I open my mouth
My language slips through and through me again
Wendy Xu is the author of You Are Not Dead (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2013), and two chapbooks. Recent poems have appeared (or will appear) in The Best American Poetry, POETRY, Denver Quarterly, Gulf Coast, The Volta, and elsewhere. She co-edits and publishes iO: A Journal of New American Poetry / iO Books, and teaches writing in Western Massachusetts.
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