Poetry
For DHP & MP
one morning we thought of
the more we write construing
this more in slow lightning
slow light and what is more—
more release, more content more
nonsense into more
discovery more invention
more unfolding gently hidden joys
more adventure more bursts
of starry delight more still
trees along the block we are walking
on Erie after lime
lemonade in September to
celebrate healing more in writing
memoir in the aftermath
of his wife’s infidelity
with a man in Morocco more
to-and-fro more waving
at a Subaru you thought was
your husband but it was red
not blue under shadows
by the streetlamp more
he dashed from work with no time
to eat more to be with you
after all day in emergencies
more grasping your hand in
the heat more gulps of water
more you learn reporters would
rather make friends and read
poetry than write about how
technology affects our lives
because they have to more
punctuated conversation in the
humidity of night more in this
clean well-lit space near MIT
under the steep staircase more
chandelier of broken plates
and cups and saucers
suspended in the shape
of a tulip upside down more calling
our friend in Washington, D.C., from
the street on the spur of a wish
Georgia San Li is at work on poetry and Untitled: a portrait from the tarmac, a novel. Her recent poetry appears or is forthcoming in, e.g., Exposition Review, LIT Magazine, Omnium Gatherum Quarterly, Osmosis (U.K.), Pembroke, and The Missouri Review. Her poetry was shortlisted for the 2023 Oxford Poetry Prize. She is the author of two chapbooks: Wandering (FLP 2024) and Intermezzo (f/c Ravenna Press 2025). She has worked on extended assignments in cities including Tokyo, Tunis, Paris, London, Mexico City, São Paulo, Denver, and Wilhelmshaven. She currently lives and works in New England. She is an alumna of the Community of Writers at Olympic Valley in poetry and fiction, the Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference, and the Kenyon Review novel workshop.