The Rupture Tense by Jenny Xie

Author:Jenny Xie [Xie, Jenny]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 2022-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

And what did you understand of exile and closure?

It was the last season of easeful transfers, of the elective reentry.

Might as well prepare for the high contrast.

Might as well tune the nocturne, block out the lens.

And what did you understand about the occluding?

About VPNs, coded chats, the bitten and erratic ghosts?

About a kind of collective disfigurement that never goes corrected?

When you least expect it, feeling will congeal.

When you’re from that far west, there’s little to recover.

When your family sees you, they’ll know you’re foreign from the tides in the bloodstream.

When you tire of your own voice, break open the ears.

When the phone calls from overseas arrive, there’ll be lipstick left on the heel of bread.

And when your youngest aunt gets shuttled to the ICU, trust me—

You’ll be the last one to hear of it.

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