Alice Jones is the author of The Knot, winner of the 1992 Beatrice Hawley Award; of Isthmus, winner of the 2000 Jane Kenyon Chapbook Award; and of Gorgeous Mourning, recipient of the 2001 Robert H. Winner Award from the Poetry Society of America. She also received the Poetry Society’s Lyric Poetry Award in 2006, and her poem “Spell” won First Place in Narrative’s First Annual Poetry Contest. Jones practices psychoanalysis in Berkeley and is on the faculty of the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis.

Photograph by KwanLam Wong.



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Departure

by Alice Jones

1.

Above the Golden Gate, a lunar mouth;
where we see a face with bruised blue
eyes in the full moon, in China they see
the profile of a white rabbit pounding rice,
the sliver rim sinks toward the horizon,
which has gone from pink to midnight

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