And Again the Magnolia by Hajara Quinn
And Again the Magnolia
Hajara QuinnIn the year of the horse
my experience of your
silence grows
more ornate.
It fills a silo with broken
satellite dishes,
a hung-up feeling.
The magnolia posted
up outside my door
is going bottoms up—
it flies in the face of your
absence, flaunts it.
Tonight the wind is my pep
rally, knocking the highest
blooms from their high
horses, overturning the lawn
chairs, push brooming a can
down the street. And again
the stupid magnolia goes
stupidly showboating
into the stupid night.
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This poem appeared in Timber Journal, Volume 6.2, Summer 2016.
ABOUT HAJARA QUINN
Hajara Quinn is an assistant editor for Octopus Books and the author of the chapbook Unnaysayer (Flying Object, 2013). Her poems have appeared in Sixth Finch, Ilk, The Volta, and are forthcoming in Gulf Coast and Banango Street. (Source)
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