Jane Wong

We have to feature a poem that has lines that are excellent--it's from "Cleaning" by Jane Wong in the Ostrich Review no. 3., and it has some startling moments that really break out. Typically modern poets lack moments of delicacy that aren't too much sugar, but her touch stands out on this excerpt:

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Plums blossom over a power grid

and I am in love again. The shame of it.

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The cold cut of a star melts.
Tell me, what are we supposed to dissolve for?