[Crwt-undergrad-info] [CW-Grad] UCR MFA Alumni Fwd: "Description of Symptoms" by Allison Benis White

Wed Mar 22 10:44:19 PDT 2023

Congrats, Allison!!!

On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 8:31 PM Roda Avelar <ravel007 at ucr.edu> wrote:

> Congrats Allison! This is so great!!! 💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐
>
> On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 8:27 PM Alejandra Castillo Chavez <
> acast241 at ucr.edu> wrote:
>
>> So good! Thank you for sharing! Congratulations to professor Allison
>> Benis White.
>>
>> -Ale
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 6:08 PM Allison Hedge Coke <allisonh at ucr.edu>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> "Description of Symptoms" by Allison Benis White Poem-a-Day | Poets.org
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>>> Now my hands buried / in my hair, resting on piano keys
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>>> Description of Symptoms
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>>> *Allison Benis White*
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>>> Now my hands buried
>>> in my hair, resting on piano keys
>>> in the back of my head.
>>> This is the music I am playing
>>> through my mind: a dark room singing
>>> a song that will not have children.
>>>
>>> *
>>>
>>> Lying on the floor tonight, snowflakes
>>> cut from paper laid over my eyes, a hand
>>> carved from wood laid over my mouth.
>>> If the truth is the thing you must not say,
>>> I will speak for the vase now
>>> as it falls: it is better never
>>> to be at all.
>>>
>>>
>>> *
>>>
>>> A hand on the back of my head
>>> made of glass, my love, my eyes,
>>> filled with wire, life. Once
>>> I watched a bird’s shadow cross a field
>>> in the wind: a black hat that could not stop
>>> tumbling. My eyes are sore
>>> from seeing, my lips from speaking.
>>>
>>> *
>>>
>>> How a ribbon curls when pulled
>>> across a scissor’s blade, I am practicing
>>> transformation, pain. How the dark hair
>>> of imagination, uncut, grows down
>>> to the floor. What is left
>>> but to make a world, a war?
>>>
>>>
>>> *
>>>
>>> Or a landscape in which to stay alive
>>> *(ghost flower/house of breath*). Another wish: language
>>> drilled through ice, through my life.
>>> If grief is love with nowhere to go, this is
>>> my mouth turning into snow.
>>> This is somewhere.
>>>
>>> Copyright © 2023 by Allison Benis White. Originally published in
>>> Poem-a-Day on March 20, 2023, by the Academy of American Poets.
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>>> “This poem was written after filling out medical intake forms for a
>>> doctor’s appointment last year. I was grieving for a friend who had ended
>>> her life, and I was experiencing symptoms I could not quite articulate. The
>>> poem surprised me with its ending, reminding me that language is a place
>>> for love to go.”
>>> *—Allison Benis White*
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>>> Allison Benis White
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>>> is the author of *The Wendys *(Four Way Books, 2020) and *Please Bury
>>> Me in This* (Four Way Books, 2017), winner of the Rilke Prize. The
>>> recipient of the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of
>>> America, she is an associate professor at the University of California,
>>> Riverside.
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>>> (Four Way Books, 2020)
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