Conjunction
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In the romance of the confluence, twoplanets appear to touch, bounty and rebirth,supplanted generation—it is easy toforget from a water-ribboned berth—no harvest without dissolution—the undeadelder banished to the outer reachof consolation, to eight hundredyears of passage through the cold blank breach.
A pair flares —the slow, distant pater with his glittering belt of ice-nocked rings, the son with his boiling ocean, his furious red eye, (a new age sings) as the revolving rock returns winding his wind-borne scythe. [End Page 293]
ANNA MARIA HONG is the author of Age of Glass, winner of the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award, the novella H & G, and Fablesque, winner of Tupelo Press’s Berkshire Prize. She is an Assistant Professor at Mount Holyoke College.
