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poem made entirely from letters in the title, after Chen Chen
a tall iris
a list of river names
omens all i see
fatal bells
o visio
o loam
a lit table
a test small flames retell
i fall over a rose
reel into a mess of lilies
sleet amasses stone
a sea lives a fever
in time a lion enters
o fearsome mane
roam most near me
Copyright © 2025 by Chloe Honum. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on March 19, 2025, by the Academy of American Poets.
The man has chosen
that he wants his ashes scattered
from the end of the pier
where he used to fish with his buddies.
They’d sit on overturned paint buckets.
Sometimes the waves gusted up
an erasure from the history section of the Anglican Trust for Women and Children’s website
a constant danger—
people who desire
exceptional experience
in controlling girls
In 1964, Maggie Wilkinson gave birth to a baby girl at St. Mary’s Home for Unwed Mothers in Auckland. Against her will, her daughter was immediately taken and given to a married couple to adopt. In her 2016 petition urging the New Zealand government to conduct an inquiry into the decades-long practice of forced adoption, she points out that the history section of the Anglican Trust for Women and Children’s website does not mention St. Mary’s Home for Unwed Mothers. She asks: “Do they believe by erasing it from their history that it will go away? That the evil will fade?"