A Long Dress
Read Anna Yin's beautiful poem A Long Dress in The Puritan Issue 33 | Click on submissions to learn more about our annual poetry contest.
After Gertrude Stein
You try to make sense
among the invisible threads.
You fear to crackle Heaven
with violence—
the code is under the grey ground
no one can rise to answer.
A line distinguishes it.
What is the wind?
What is it?
A hurt color and blind glasses …
Voices are lost in the cornfield
where ears have been cut off.
A line just distinguishes it.
Is a long dress to address the necessary
Promise or to edge the breaking news?
A line will distinguish it.
A line must distinguish it.
