NVN Monday: UNDER
by Jenna Le
Political Art is a painting by Gull G
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Under the politician's monument, there was a grub twisting in the topsoil, and a topsail from an ancient ship folded nine times, and a mole with pale human-like fingers prodding a tree root, and under this, a chest seething with stolen coins, and an aquifer dank with depleted water, and a cave system beading on for miles and miles, and a vein of gold ore, and a cache of diamonds, and a hoard of sapphires, and under this, a corpse moaning the name of its child.
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Jenna Le is the author of Six Rivers (NYQ Books, 2011), A History of the Cetacean American Diaspora (Indolent Books, 2017), and Manatee Lagoon (Acre Books, 2022). Her poetry appears in AGNI, Denver Quarterly, Los Angeles Review, Massachusetts Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Pleiades, Poet Lore, Verse Daily, and West Branch.