Omega Watch

Jennifer Tseng

 

 

given

given again

taken

never reported

missing face

missing hands

missing wrist

band serial number

never repeated

ticking

taken away

face

never recovered

(the lost hands

touching

the lost face)

found

a letter mark

found

a number mark

found

on every face

at the top

of every hour

a scar

an eye

a we

the possibility

 

 

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Jennifer Tseng is the author of The Man With My Face, winner of a 2006 PEN American Center Open Book Award, and Red Flower, White Flower, winner of the 2012 Marick Press Poetry Prize, forthcoming this year. She works as a literary events coordinator, circulation assistant, and poetry workshop facilitator for the West Tisbury Free Public Library on Martha's Vineyard.