Incubation period I un know in
redacted lines Nav guidance touches
on hospital foster care agency
the yearning of two & three Longing
spans seas My progenitors tree
-lined colorburst thrusts continents to coast
I insert myself between Mother
Father Our space makes parenthetical
hug parental We
will always be an end in ourselves
Family destiny in destination
There is a map in this story
Boston Logan in my soul
Months & days taught oyster & apple
home red falling leaves
in cranberry bog the fluid glory
of letter R cliffs
consonants of new origin
Maria S. Picone/수영 (mariaspicone.com; @mspicone) is a queer Korean American adoptee who has three chapbooks: Anti Asian Bias, Adoptee Song (Game Over Books), This Tenuous Atmosphere (Conium). She has been published in Tahoma Literary Review, Reckoning, and others including Best Small Fictions 2021. She won Salamander’s Louisa Solano Memorial Emerging Poet Prize, Cream City Review’s 2020 Poetry Prize, and support from Kenyon Review, Juniper, McCormack (fka Tin House), Hambidge, The Watering Hole, South Carolina Arts Commission, South Arts, and elsewhere. She edits at Chestnut Review, Five Minutes, and Foglifter.
