{"id":4846,"date":"2016-07-01T00:00:51","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T07:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeandlegends.com\/?p=4846"},"modified":"2016-07-02T03:14:48","modified_gmt":"2016-07-02T10:14:48","slug":"sonia-greenfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lifeandlegends.com\/sonia-greenfield\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonia Greenfield"},"content":{"rendered":"

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BIO<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sonia Greenfield was born and raised in Peekskill, New York. Her poems, essays, and fiction have appeared widely, including in 2010 Best American Poetry, The Bellevue Literary Review, Cimarron Review, The Massachusetts Review, and Rattle. Her book, Boy with a Halo at the Farmer’s Market, recently won the 2014 Codhill Poetry Prize. She lives with her husband and son in Los Angeles, California, where she teaches writing at USC.
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River Dolphin<\/strong><\/p>\n

I thought I was going
\nto tell you about that ship
\nin the Yangtze, how upturned
\nhull sat on the rusty surface
\nlike an iceberg<\/p>\n

in that the better part
\nof the boat hung beneath
\nthe churning like muddy
\ncatacombs. I thought I was
\ngoing to tell you about men<\/p>\n

in orange vests pressing ears
\nto cold metal, listening
\nfor pings and knocks. Thought
\nI was going to admit relief
\nto learn it was pensioners<\/p>\n

and not a school trip,
\nthought I\u2019d admit how easy
\nto accept motherless child over
\nchildless mother. I thought I\u2019d say
\nhow the weather lashed,<\/p>\n

thought I\u2019d picture a whip
\nof rain wrapped around upper-level
\nrails, how it snapped the top
\nunder. Instead I want to say
\nall the Baiji are gone.<\/p>\n

Fishermen plucked them
\nfrom a river, which makes its
\nbodily exchange. Rocks along
\nshore are heartless, and the endless
\ncoursing absorbs all the rain.<\/p>\n

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I saw the cement walls
\npocked with bullet holes.
\nThe shoe left in a black clot
\nsmeared with a darker
\nred. The blood you shed.
\nIn photos where you carry
\nthe bodies of children from
\na school, your expressions
\nare stricken, but I have to
\npin this on the breast
\nof your unfairer sex. So
\nyou heft small caskets
\nabove your head. But let’s
\nadmit the lasting burden
\nrests on the shoulders
\nof mothers. Photos show
\ntheir features blurred by veils
\ncut from the cloth of grief.
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