Monica Youn
Sunrise: Foley Square
one siren stains the morning in concentric rings
another starts up…stops…starts again…stops – little chips of sound like a climber’s hammer testing for handholds on an upward sloping face
daylight floods the soundscape with a clear liquid, thickening, flowing over and around [ ]
a lack that could be displaced but not entirely dispersed, an air bubble trapped in rubber tubing
something cone-shaped, just discernible, coming to resemble a cry
Monica Youn is the author of Blackacre (forthcoming Graywolf Press 2016), Ignatz (Four Way Books 2010), which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and Barter (Graywolf Press 2003). Her poems have been widely published in journals and anthologies, including The New Republic, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry, and The Best American Poetry. She has been awarded the Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University and the Witter Bynner Fellowship of the Library of Congress as well as residencies from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio, the MacDowell Colony, and the Corporation of Yaddo. She currently teaches poetry at Princeton University.
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