Kerri Sonnenberg's poetry

Practice For The Latent Ear

one gesture to
infer--transmission--the sky an active continuance around-
-it apparent for some purpose--her likeness reflected-in that
scene without--

sequential--flight
pattern or similar circumference--so rested--instead
a taken pitch-trace--elements of resist--to hear an a
skirt somewhere shy of her left--another tropism--acoustic

sequin--locate the shape of that arrival--the method insists-
-some sense of bird is being repeated

Absence/Procedure

heat cast is but this ligature--to overturn

--the cautionary reply--etcetera--so much--weathers-

bodily- at some point in--in the night is during

-is whited--settles

to a mull--that water same
receiving our disturbance-
-no coin or hand inert--is our betters

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