Nancy Chen Long reads from her book Wider than the Sky this week on Poets Weave, a weekly program of poetry reading hosted by Romayne Rubinas Dorsey and produced by WFIU Public Media at Indiana University.
Listen to "Altered State at the Grocery Store" and "Umbra" below.
"By myself at that late hour, I study the uniformed rows—/ months and months of potential meals boxed and lining the freezer./ I fling open the glass door. It’s not only the burst of cold/ that’s so startling, but a kiss, warm at the nape that makes me// flush"
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