Impossible not to think
symphony as the trees’ crowns
dipped and swept to alarming
depths in another summer gale
in a season of iconic
extremes—too hot, too dry,
too wet, fire and flood, smoke and ice
drumming from the sky. Heart, tear,
and palm rippling in green tenacity.
May we leave them enough.
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Anna Maria Hong is the author of Age of Glass (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2018), Fablesque (Tupelo Press, 2020), and H & G (Sidebrow Books, 2018). With Christine Hume, she coedited Traversals: A Folio on Walking, published in The Hopkins Review in 2023. A recipient of fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation, she is an associate professor at Mount Holyoke College. Find her at https://www.annamariahong.net/.
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