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Mrs. D

BY MICHELLE JIA

Honorable Mention for the 2012 Adroit Prize for Poetry
Judge: Chloe Honum

death is a current
from the familiar
to the unfamiliar,
an unstoppable
arrival upon a bed
of corn husks
in the blind
throttle
of hailstones

death is a scattering
over a fountain
of shapeless linen
in the lunge and the loom
of an accelerating
headwind

death is the all-stone
child of a flowing
chisel that will not
be still
for its
asthmatic
mother

Michelle Jia is a writer and musician who lives for summer storms, paper mail and uncharted land. She is a freshman at Stanford University, but calls Toronto, Canada home.