Great poem!<br><br>On Wednesday, March 22, 2023, Carlina Perna <<a href="mailto:cpern002@ucr.edu">cpern002@ucr.edu</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Congrats, Allison!!!</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 8:31 PM Roda Avelar <<a href="mailto:ravel007@ucr.edu" target="_blank">ravel007@ucr.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Congrats Allison! This is so great!!! 💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 8:27 PM Alejandra Castillo Chavez <<a href="mailto:acast241@ucr.edu" target="_blank">acast241@ucr.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div dir="auto">So good! Thank you for sharing! Congratulations to professor Allison Benis White.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">-Ale</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 6:08 PM Allison Hedge Coke <<a href="mailto:allisonh@ucr.edu" target="_blank">allisonh@ucr.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div dir="ltr"><div> "Description of Symptoms" by Allison Benis White <b class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Poem-a-Day | Poets.org</b> </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br><div><u></u>
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<div style="text-align:right;font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">March 20,<span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> 2023 </span></div>
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<p style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:150%;margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif;text-align:left;color:rgb(72,72,72)"><span style="font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">Now my hands buried </span><br>
<span style="font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">in my hair, resting on piano keys </span><br>
<span style="font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">in the back of my head. </span><br>
<span style="font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">This is the music I am playing </span><br>
<span style="font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">through my mind: a dark room singing </span><br>
<span style="font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">a song that will not have children. </span></p>
<p style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:150%;margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif;text-align:left;color:rgb(72,72,72)"><span style="font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">* </span></p>
<p style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:150%;margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif;text-align:left;color:rgb(72,72,72)"><span style="font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">Lying on the floor tonight, snowflakes </span><br>
<span style="font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">cut from paper laid over my eyes, a hand </span><br>
<span style="font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">carved from wood laid over my mouth. </span><br>
<span style="font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">If the truth is the thing you must not say, </span><br>
<span style="font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">I will speak for the vase now</span><br>
as it falls: <span style="font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">it is better never </span><br>
<span style="font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">to be at all.<i style="font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif"> <wbr> <wbr> </i> </span><br>
<span style="font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif"><i style="font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif"> </i> </span><br>
<span style="font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">* </span></p>
<p style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:150%;margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif;text-align:left;color:rgb(72,72,72)"><span style="font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">A hand on the back of my head </span><br>
<span style="font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">made of glass, my love, my eyes, </span><br>
<span style="font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">filled with wire, life. Once </span><br>
<span style="font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">I watched a bird’s shadow cross a field </span><br>
<span style="font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">in the wind: a black hat that could not stop </span><br>
<span style="font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">tumbling. My eyes are sore </span><br>
<span style="font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">from seeing, my lips from speaking. </span></p>
<p style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:150%;margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif;text-align:left;color:rgb(72,72,72)"><span style="font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">* </span></p>
<p style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:150%;margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif;text-align:left;color:rgb(72,72,72)"><span style="font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">How a ribbon curls when pulled </span><br>
<span style="font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">across a scissor’s blade, I am practicing </span><br>
<span style="font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">transformation, pain. How the dark hair </span><br>
<span style="font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">of imagination, uncut, grows down </span><br>
<span style="font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">to the floor. What is left </span><br>
<span style="font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">but to make a world, a war? <wbr> </span><br>
<span style="font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif"> <wbr> <wbr> </span><br>
<span style="font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">* </span></p>
<p style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:150%;margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif;text-align:left;color:rgb(72,72,72)"><span style="font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">Or a landscape in which to stay alive </span><br>
<span style="font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif"><i style="font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">(ghost flower/house of breath</i>). Another wish: language </span><br>
<span style="font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">drilled through ice, through my life. </span><br>
<span style="font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">If grief is love with nowhere to go, this is </span><br>
<span style="font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">my mouth turning into snow. </span><br>
<span style="font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">This is somewhere. </span></p>
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<p style="font-size:12px;margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif;line-height:150%;text-align:left;color:rgb(113,113,113)">Copyright © 2023 by Allison Benis White. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on March 20, 2023, by the Academy of American Poets.</p>
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