What Rings
by Trish Salah
if it comes on some invisible,
what is this thing, evening?
is this song singing?
out of earth and out of mind
out of voice or out of—
where does a voice come from,
the moon? is the moon its mirror?
formed to a pair of lungs, or whole
assembled body, some carried
reedy found/made thing?
is it from beneath the city?
what’s beneath the stones?
are stones born from the sea?
is the moon a sea of stone?
there is a city below evening.
do our bodies sing there?
ABOUT THE CREATOR
Photo credit: Kaspar Saxena
Born in Halifax/Kjipuktuk, Trish Salah is a writer of Lebanese-Irish heritage. She is the author of the Lambda Award-winning poetry collection, Wanting in Arabic and of Lyric Sexology Vol. 1, and co-editor of special issues of TSQ, on cultural production, and Arc Poetry Magazine, spotlighting trans, non-binary, and Two Spirit writers. An associate professor of Gender Studies at Queen’s University, she edits the Journal of Critical Race Inquiry. She lives in T’karonto/Toronto.
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