ANN PEDONE

FALL/WINTER 2020 ISSUE #01 POET

Ann Pedone is an independent scholar and writer who graduated from Bard College with a degree in English Literature. She has a Master’s degree in Chinese Language and Literature from UC Berkeley. Ann is the author of the chapbook The Bird Happened. More recently her work has recently appeared in Ornery Quarterly, Riggwelter, Main Street Rag, Poet head, Cathexis Northwest, and The Wax Paper, among others. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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(Excerpt from Twenty-Five Long Songs)

How strange it is/the way one body moves inside another/never again are you the same/impossible to hold onto the/idea of the self when you are spread out/like this/the longing is to be pure/but that’s not what you get/ take this/this is what I have saved/what I have gathered/inside of me/ it belongs to neither of us /it is the remnants of something you feel /in the swell of the sea.