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Penumbra





Though to cast
drawn in new chalk

would choral’s
totality advance

mid-song, harsh
even for crying

cantilevering
uttering not fair,

an owl descends.
Owls

descend after
Akachan who

kicks around
the bin

vers libre
red from much

signing
back and forth

obi under
barn creatures

rocking asleep
whose

ruinous
ax, a dull ring




Sophia Terazawa is the author of Anon and Winter Phoenix, both with Deep Vellum, along with the chapbooks I AM NOT A WAR (Essay Press) and Correspondent Medley (Factory Hollow Press), winner of the 2018 Tomaž Šalamun Prize. She teaches poetry at Virginia Tech. Her favorite color is purple.