Sunlight shines down
On the scene

A teak brig Bounding warm rain New
Tongues

Sea in the wake of a great Wave

I focus on the tiny strip of First birdsong
Unfolding

—What I will break my Teeth upon
I think    What I will answer for

SANDRA LIM's first book, Loveliest Grotesque, was published in 2006 by Kore Press. Her poetry has appeared in American Letters & Commentary, Denver Quarterly, Boston Review, Court Green, and other journals. She is the recipient of a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, a Soul Mountain Fellowship, and a 2006 Pushcart Prize nomination.