“Beach,” by Monica Youn
The New Yorker recently featured a series of poems by poetry faculty member Monica Youn. Read an excerpt of one of these poems, “Beach,” below:
Beach
she’s tacky with lipstick
kisses she’s smeared with unctuous
brags envious mutters cling to her
like limp lace hankies charged with
static she flees to the beach she
scrubs herself with saltwater with
sand her peerless lustre shines
unmarred her scouring only serves
to polish it to a serener sheen she
sheathes herself in a tawny coat…
Read the poem series in its entirety here: https://www.newyorker.com/books/poems/study-of-two-figures-dr-seuss-chrysanthemum-pearl
