MEGAN WONG

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Megan Wong is a poet and teacher from New Mexico with an MFA in Creative Writing from New Mexico State University.  She currently works as a freelance editor in California's East Bay area. She has work published and forthcoming in Bone Bouquet, Puerto del Sol, and other journals.

On Certainty

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If I did stand beneath one Zeus-shaped cloud, the puffiness so high up that the distance between my eyes and it was indicative of the distance between my eyes and coming to a consensus on how to talk about marriage neutrally—whatever we decided in that hour between Alamogordo and home is less memorable than the changeless instant in which I could call that cloud a god.

Apology for Apology

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Every night I lay me down to the speech I give
my daughter to speak—each word

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in ways that slant around a point
I try not to make

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too definitively
                            in case what I say
is merely phenomenological fact,

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yet with enough precision to emboss my own
face on the product.

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I must prepare my body
in defense, to rally for or against my daughter,

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for myself to become, against her or for

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if I’m wrong, then rise again to the peel of white
in the light of empty sheets

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and entreat the opening progressive verb
in lieu of to be.