4/5/2021 POETRY: CORNELIA HOOGLANDWATERY HIGHWAYS HOME Roll down the car window – the song of the winter wren. The world’s sorrow is fathoms deep, is undertow – it shapes the darkness that contains us. What kind of broken are we? This winking branch-to-branch releases into light above the trees. Is it wind passing through fir needles? What is sound when nothing resists it? Deafening: container ships, cruise liners, screaming invasion, sonars, seismic air guns detonating shock waves of noise – obliterating subaquatic clan-sounds, a babbling calf trailing its mother’s four-click morse- code, the audio glue of pods on the move, on watery highways home. A wonder one orca can hear another. Where are you? Where are you? Cornelia Hoogland’s forthcoming chapbook, titled Dressed in Only a Cardigan, She Picks Up Her Tracks in the Snow, is forthcoming with Baseline Press (2021). Her latest book is Cosmic Bowling (Guernica, 2020), a collaboration with the visual artist Ted Goodden. Trailer Park Elegy and Woods Wolf Girl were finalists for national awards. Hoogland was the 2019 writer-in-residence for the Al Purdy A-Frame and the Whistler Festival. http://www.corneliahoogland.com/
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