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At the Chernobyl Power Plant Eco-reserve, and: Landscape with Translucent Moon, and: The Understory, and: Landscape with Peregrine Falcon and Hart Crane, and: Refingering the Chords for “Blackberry Blossom”

At the Chernobyl Power Plant Eco-reserve, and: Landscape with Translucent Moon, and: The... Jennifer Atkinson At the Chernobyl Power Plant Eco-reserve poetr y If ravens perch on the Ferris wheel outside of town, if owls nest in the silos and swallows circle the tipped watchtower, if catfish bloat in the cooling pool and elk graze on perennial beard grass, if boars rake their tusks among the roots, if black storks claim the cloud-blighted pines of Red Forest, if wire succumbs to rust, if lichen, if shingles unhinge in the snow, if untrafficked lots cede land to yarrow, if mirrors, if spoons reflect the sky, if watches tick in unopened drawers, if swollen, if stiff-maned Przewalski's horses foal, if wolves, if then, if then, if Landscape with Translucent Moon Palm trees, like old pilings, tip in the sand toward the Maldive Islands still. The moon, a slice of green coconut, floats in a sky streaky with cloud. Eight winters after the tsunami hit, offshore the coral reef is reinventing itself by fits and starts, by hook and foot and reef-wasn't-built-in-a-day steady calm. Patience comes easy to gastropods. The after-war news is of atrocity, in this like before-, during, afterwar news everywhere: rape, torture, mass graves, the usual list, human power reasserting itself http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Missouri Review University of Missouri

At the Chernobyl Power Plant Eco-reserve, and: Landscape with Translucent Moon, and: The Understory, and: Landscape with Peregrine Falcon and Hart Crane, and: Refingering the Chords for “Blackberry Blossom”

The Missouri Review , Volume 36 (4) – Jan 9, 2013

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Jennifer Atkinson At the Chernobyl Power Plant Eco-reserve poetr y If ravens perch on the Ferris wheel outside of town, if owls nest in the silos and swallows circle the tipped watchtower, if catfish bloat in the cooling pool and elk graze on perennial beard grass, if boars rake their tusks among the roots, if black storks claim the cloud-blighted pines of Red Forest, if wire succumbs to rust, if lichen, if shingles unhinge in the snow, if untrafficked lots cede land to yarrow, if mirrors, if spoons reflect the sky, if watches tick in unopened drawers, if swollen, if stiff-maned Przewalski's horses foal, if wolves, if then, if then, if Landscape with Translucent Moon Palm trees, like old pilings, tip in the sand toward the Maldive Islands still. The moon, a slice of green coconut, floats in a sky streaky with cloud. Eight winters after the tsunami hit, offshore the coral reef is reinventing itself by fits and starts, by hook and foot and reef-wasn't-built-in-a-day steady calm. Patience comes easy to gastropods. The after-war news is of atrocity, in this like before-, during, afterwar news everywhere: rape, torture, mass graves, the usual list, human power reasserting itself

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The Missouri ReviewUniversity of Missouri

Published: Jan 9, 2013

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