June by Lynn Xu

June
37 pages
$6

Lynn Xu was born in Shanghai. She is a graduate fellow at Brown's MFA program. Her poems were selected by Anne Carson as the winner of the 2006 Greg Grummer Contest: "these have the passionate compression and quick syntactic spring of a John Donne lyric . . . [but] the way these disintegrate gently into an imprecision which is sort of raw, but even more thoughtful" (Carson). In the summer Lynn wishes to move away from Providence and closer to water. This will likely not happen. Her poems are forthcoming in The Canary and Phoebe. June, is her first chapbook.

from June

There are flowers on your back. Large, voluminous, like bone. There is a word I am thinking of, I cannot remember. A sword moving around the body, a beard of light flagged down a newer, more fragrant nosebleed. The mind is watery and in love with cake. Nothing was visible beyond it, was narrative, was deeper landscape directing our bodies away from each other.