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2026 Academy of American Poets Prize (Graduate)

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Seedheadedly

by Elise Thi Tran

 

seedheadedly come July & (peacockish) eyes outnumber teeth. what good a Seer without her bluebright Sirius? my June rash gone before the end of June. All indigo jaws fade. Summertaught this foresight, I know some cede more bitter than the rest. I know it. I’m not ready & I don’t wish to ever be. * thin consolation Cycle. Loth acolyte of season attendant to some distant past&future dyingstar I see it even with my looklong hundred eyes closed. behind my lids I conjure starry bluebells fixed sky &evergarden gardens. I will live my life with all my looklong hundred eyes closed. * My looklong hundred eyes closed or no come certain contrecoup bare aperture. Ear to lens, some sounds heard & never heard again.

 



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