Q
Hannah Sanghee Park, 1986
May I master love, undo its luster
do in the thing that makes us lust?
May I speed through the body’s sinew
to marrow? Or is toiling a part of
the gaining of trust? May I pare and narrow
your body down, and open it to my
cupidity’s arrow? May I find my
response to body’s unanswered call,
(if the want leaves you wanting, at all)?
&A
Hannah Sanghee Park, 1986
Being a matter
of importance, there
is no mastering
this but to bind you,
thrash and all, to the
mast. O you won’t reach
irresistible song,
but the rope will teach
you the body’s give.
Go down to the bone,
then tell me again
there what matters. It
will give you every
-thing you need to know
about what I cannot tell you and then,
just maybe then, could it be enough.
About This Poem
“This is a two-part poem, the ‘Q’ of a ‘Q-and-A.’ The speaker is urgent, urging this line of inquiry to get to the heart of the matter. ‘And-A’ will answer in the way all matters of the heart are answered: with patience.” – Hannah Sanghee Park
Hannah Sanghee Park is the author of “The Same-Different,” which won the 2014 Walt Whitman Award and is forthcoming from Louisiana University Press in 2015. She attends the Writing for Screen & Television Program at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts and lives in Los Angeles.
Joe
The Closet Professor 
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