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  • The American Poetry Review

    FOUR POEMS

    Sep 01, 2021 2 minutes
    WENDY XU

    Poem Beginning to Sound

    Myself as echo, failed synonym
    Disappeared music returns to my father’s house
    playing against a white painter’s cloth nailed to the wall

    (a flag was waving distantly)
    (the perimeter wet with flowers)

    Like a child burying favorite words in the sandboxI filled the undying year with tasks(I keep atPlanting fingers in the gaps between linesI wrote notes into an openingfor he who departed in color, I knew only lightly

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