Lily Poetry Review: “Let’s Review”

"Let’s Review," published in Lily Poetry Review Let’s Review

Let’s say my parents live on,

watching from a balcony.

Both blinded and backlit,

I imagine them applauding,

an exercise in object permanence.

Accident that I was/am,

accident of language—how I

never understood

until old enough,

until I learned to project my voice.