Rondel on Route 120
- Rondel on Route 120
How still, this country hospitalsecreted in New Hampshire’s hills—the clack of jars of painted pillsis by its lush pine rugs made dull,
and no one here hears any full-throat yell, though surely someone shrillswithin this country hospitalsecreted in New Hampshire’s hills,
just as they must wherever skullis sawed so that the swelled brain spillsout of its shell, and sepsis chillsthe clumping heart-blood’s scuttled hull—even in this country hospitalsecreted in New Hampshire’s hills. [End Page 84]
jenna le is a physician and the author of Six Rivers and A History of the Cetacean American Diaspora, a second-place winner in the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association’s Elgin Awards. A two-time winner of the Poetry by the Sea sonnet competition, she has had poems appear in AGNI, Denver Quarterly, the Los Angeles Review, and elsewhere.
