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Ginger Ko in Response to Chloë Rose

Sister Summons
 
 
I have wanted to believe in something, and my sisters are the clearest
 
 
Imprint (unborn speaker)
 
 
• because we keep making more • with irreparables inside • melting nation-states • glinting piles
• the scurrying myriad workers with bitty tools • indistinct borders we think up • think up
everything • cannot now unthink them • rush you • rush you • rush to reach conclusions before
you die • insist on your conclusions to others who cannot leave the room • leaves • roots • fruits •
each different decantation • injuries • accidents •
 
 
 
I have wanted to believe in something, and my sisters are the closest
 
 
Imprint (unborn speaker)
 
 
• it is important to him/them to be seen • they say I am both disgusting and unreal • memory: I
want you
• memory: I want you to know you are desirable • disgusting • unreal • I am here but I
am unfamiliar • not yet seeming real • sand and dirt small hands of the earth • can not we • can
not we • can not we • can not we have ourselves • seam unsticking peeling open • do you know
why they self-harm • turn violence inwards • yes • they find that their illness • their demise •
because: forgetting to hit OFF many years ago • any other can be our sister • a quiet tribe •
 
 
I have wanted to believe in something, and my sisters provide
 
 
Imprint (unborn speaker)
 
 
• the acoustics of: I can still bear it • I can still bear you • blue blue a beauty • or terror • green
green a sustenance: the most important thing • the most important thing: no longer is life • you
are dim • from either distance or thinness • I am almost nothing except deep • an interior for my
​length • you • me • leaving behind mineral contaminants • crystal •
 


Ginger Ko is the author of Motherlover (Bloof Books), and the chapbooks Inherit (Bloof Books) and Comorbid (Lark Books). Sidebrow will be publishing her second, currently unnamed full collection of poetry. Ginger is currently a PhD student at the University of Georgia’s creative writing program. You can find her online at www.gingerko.com

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