• Home
  • Poetry
  • Archives
  • Readers
  • Past Events
    • Fall | 2012 Reading
    • Spring | 2013 Reading
    • Spring | 2014 Reading
    • Fall | 2015 Reading
    • Gallery
  • Submissions
    • The Paris-American Prize
  • About/Contact
  • Support
  • Home
  • Poetry
  • Archives
  • Readers
  • Past Events
    • Fall | 2012 Reading
    • Spring | 2013 Reading
    • Spring | 2014 Reading
    • Fall | 2015 Reading
    • Gallery
  • Submissions
    • The Paris-American Prize
  • About/Contact
  • Support


CHLOE HONUM

Ballerina at Dawn

By then I'd learned
to triple pirouette,
which felt like disappearing.

At dawn, mist widened
the space between the trees.
I walked toward the studio,

past the creek and the pale-
veined stones. Light
measured the icicles.

And for a moment,
passing beneath those
swords of slow rain,

I heard the birds lift
their hunger-song
from early to midwinter.


4     The Paris-American

Picture
Chloe Honum’s poems have appeared in The Paris Review, Poetry, The  Southern Review, Orion, Memorious, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, an Isabella Gardner Residency Fellowship from the MacDowell Colony, and a Tennessee Williams scholarship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. She is currently the Writer in  Residence at the Jack Kerouac House in Orlando, Florida. Find her online at  www.chloehonum.com.


Picture
  The Paris-American
  Copyright © 2018 The
Paris-American

   About • Contact • Submit • Archives • Support
✕