• Skip to main content
  • Skip to secondary navigation
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Painted Bride Quarterly

  • About
    • About PBQ
    • People
  • Issues
    • Current Issue
    • Past Issues
    • Print Annuals
  • Podcast
    • Latest Podcast
    • All Podcasts
  • News & Events
  • Submit
  • Shop
  • Fiction
  • Poetry
  • Prose
  • Contributors
  • Current Issue

Anna Maria Hong: Anecdote of the Seed

May 11, 2011 by PBQ

Gone to seed to flower to fruit,
I am the keeper of lime. I polish,
I snip stem from leaf, I flatten,
suture rind. Action. Has its merits:

Consider the pip. I wish
I were a pip, asleep and dreaming of
lime. Last night, I dreamt my father
was dead and I bursting with joy. I told

you how I construe a lime. I
told you where I’ve been. Pulp compels my sense
of caring. Pulp upon pulp, packed
and packed in. You wanted to hear a story?

Along came a seed. The seed wore
a hat. Made with the seed in mind. The hat
annoyed the sun, so the sun smashed
the seed. Who made a world of sense and sun.

Filed Under: Contributors 77, Issue 77, Poetry, Poetry 77 Tagged With: Anna Maria Hong, Contributors 77, Poetry, Poetry 77

Primary Sidebar

Recent News & Events

PBQ @ AWP!

PBQ Poet’s Publishing Premier: Carlos Andrés Gómez’s Fractures

Issue 100 Has Arrived!

Temporarily Closing Submissions

PBQ presents: Slam Bam Reboot

© 2020 Painted Bride Quarterly. Contact PBQ: info@pbqmag.org