December 27, 2023

[Sun-messenger]

Lynn Xu

Sun-messenger
call Life
to me

slowly
and all at
once criss-
crossing in that golden
light

                                   Snail
                       with your moving shroud
                       Silver tree
            with your thousand roadways

O dream
hurry
go past me

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“I wrote this poem after receiving Claudia Rankine’s invitation to send something for the series, so I suppose it is an occasional poem—written for the occasion to share a poem with you.”
—Lynn Xu

Lynn Xu is the author of And Those Ashen Heaps That Cantilevered Vase of Moonlight (Wave Books, 2022) and Debts & Lessons (Omnidawn, 2013).

And Those Ashen Heaps That Cantilevered Vase of Moonlight
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