Coronagraph

Abstract

Coronagraph Laura Reece Hogan (bio) Sometimes with our lesser magnification you let us swallow the sun. Sometimes the sea-smoothed lip of the conch murmurs that it is really the ocean, while the ocean would have us believe it is the sway of shining scales. Sometimes you let us savor our vital spark in the circadian clock of the Monarch antennae or the turning of green leaves to the glow. The tiny curled fingers in an ultrasound, bright. Sometimes we stumble on your stars and the exoplanet nursery, a coronagraph of dust and gas swirling around baby worlds hundreds of light years away. They would have us believe in their genesis, in the tell-tale ripples marking their likeness. Always you utter atoms across time, let our molecules hear and bend toward your extravagant, telescoping voice. [End Page 326] Laura Reece Hogan Laura Reece Hogan is the author of Litany of Flights (2020), which won the 2020 Paraclete Poetry Prize, the chapbook O Garden-Dweller (2017), and the nonfiction spiritual theology book I Live, No Longer I (2017). A Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, she is one of ten poets featured in the anthology In a Strange Land (2019). Her poems have appeared in America, Dappled Things, The Christian Century, First Things, Anglican Theological Review, Cumberland River Review, Whale Road Review, The Cresset, Santa Fe Literary Review and other publications. www.laurareecehogan.com. Copyright © 2021 Johns Hopkins University Press