Karissa Ho
Another Country
Genevieve Leone
After Hong Sang-soo
A film is not a painting. A film travels in time.
As in: she watches. Everything that happens,
happens in another country. Summer rain. There was nothing to see—
a beach, temples in the distance.
The lover doesn’t come. She reads in her room, for days.
Or he does. Time is not what you think.
She looks for a lighthouse. Someone is telling a story: He
filmed me from the back like a figure in a landscape.
Men follow with strange words. Everything that happens,
happens.
It hurts to speak. Was there a lighthouse?
There was nothing to read.
Genevieve Leone is readjusting to life in New York City, after having lived and taught for several years in Shanghai, China. Her poems have appeared in Book of Matches, Meridian: the APWT Drunken Boat Anthology of New Writing, The Hong Kong Review, Zócalo Public Square, and other journals. Her writing has been supported by the AWP Writer to Writer program.
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