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Fall 2024 • Vol. XLVI No. 4 • Rural Spaces |

Solstice

blackberry wand - - rugosa
vine - - ground graphite pressed
to sheen - - lotus opens her eye - -
blackbird births a feather

- - Hangul filaments lane and
blade - - the female cardinal’s
dusk-red habit - - hare has left
a daughter

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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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