BOMBlog’s Word Choice features original works of poetry, fiction, and art. This edition of Word Choice, selected by Peter Moysaenko, features poetry by Jennifer Chapis and art by Stephanie Pierce.

Chapis delivers poems at once so slight and vital they float along on their own melancholy undercurrents, into foregone storms of wind and light, toward the hazard of the instant.

Rain Underwater

Years, I’ve prayed the love
leave me—

even I remind me of you.

Whistle isn’t sound
underwater,

silt-altar
gasping bloom.

Ages I’ve feared
myself alone.

Hold tight
crooked fishhook you.

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