The American Poetry Review

TWO POEMS

Light Work

“Light Work” is a poem cycle in conversation with photographs by Jennifer
Anne Tucker.

With lines from Monique Wittig, Fred Moten, Anne Carson, Wendy Brown,
Khadijah Queen, Susan Howe, & Anne Waldman.

1.She understands the yellow roseas a prosthetic. She is on the hillat dawn. She says the westernskies areskies are Fujifilm, warm and cool.

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