Blackacre by Monica Youn

Author:Monica Youn
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-55597-946-1
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 2016-08-15T04:00:00+00:00

GREENACRE

Gold flecked, dark-rimmed, opaque—

like a toad’s

stolid unsurprise—

the lake never blinks

its hazel eye.

Manmade, five feet deep,

the exact square footage of a city block.

Lakewater murk

precipitates

a glinting silt of algae,

specks of soil,

minnows wheeling in meticulous formation,

the occasional water snake, angry, lost.

Two pale figures in the lake,

half-

submerged, viewed

at an oblique angle.

At thirteen, I spent summer afternoons

reading in my treehouse, a simple platform

without walls,

like a hunting blind,

a white painted birdhouse,

without walls

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