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Jess Gersony
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INTRODUCTION TO HYDROSCAPES
What do you make
of an expanding? Of water
coming in and pushing the leaf
to grow? What do you make
of dehydrating?
An emptying, a lessening.
I am grasping at the grace
of fluid. Grasping at
it’s carrying of me.
I see the surface,
the underwater,
and the sky.
I remember driving with my father
and sister to the spring
coming out of a cliff
to collect a few gallons for home.
Where is my first water?
And will I recognize it?
Jess Gersony (she/her) is a queer poet and plant biologist investigating human-earth interactions. Her poetry has appeared in The Sycamore Review, Off the Coast, The Tide Rises, and Willows Wept Review.
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