Poetry
SPRING 2021Erasure
by SUSANNA LANG
Snow falls over the river falls
out of the night sky into the night’s reflection
feathers in streetlights silences
the streets the passersby
fills tire tracks and footprints remembers
nothing erases the marks of our passage
What did the leaves look like last week last month
Who spoke what words did I hear
How did I answer What is the sound
of my voice woven with others
Did the sparrows call this morning
from the innermost branches of the hedge
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Susanna Lang
Susanna Lang’s chapbook, Self-Portraits, was released in October 2020 by Blue Lyra Press, and her translation of Baalbek by Nohad Salameh is forthcoming in 2021 from L’Atelier du Grand Tétras. Her third full-length collection of poems, Travel Notes from the River Styx, was published in 2017 by Terrapin Books. A two-time Hambidge fellow, her poems and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, december, Delos, The Literary Review, American Life in Poetry, and The Slowdown. Her translations of poetry by Yves Bonnefoy include Words in Stone and The Origin of Language, and she is now working with Souad Labbize on new translations. She lives and teaches in Chicago. Her website is susannalang.com.