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POETRY BY HANNAH JANE SASSAMAN

LESSON

Yah yauh yaugh yaw. The difference
An opening, a lift at the back

Of the throat. Large enough
To melt a sugar cube, she says.

So the back of a spoon could sit
On your tongue and still rim

Your bottom teeth, the voice teacher
Says. Or two fingers, she says.

So your jaw falls almost slack.
Yah. Yauh. Yaugh.

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Hannah Jane Sassaman is a Theatre Arts major
at the University of Pennsylvania. She lives with three girls,
five guys, a cat, and a snake.

Hannah is an editor at CrossConnect and a member
of the poetry forum Zeugma.

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