Saturday, February 7, 2009


HOA NGUYEN








LIVING




Living in the dream under a US regime

that legalized and actively encouraged

random racism

---------I was the outspoken

sister
------------defiant and scared

in the parking garage

talking back to the racist aggro frat boy



How to make dream-jelly when birds

love them-------We name birds


----------------------------Kingfisher

all trilly

---------a beefy kind of bird



Life eats life--------------Here's a fig



Wheeling black vultures collect now in the elm

frosted black wings



My 3-faced goddess nests in the roots

a fruit for child birth



(I wrote child bird originally)



and think

he will go far-------------being male & white-looking & attractive



Gather leaves and dry them Sew them

with reed string

------------------for to make me a book



A story within a story



-------Tree-roots mirror branches----or veins

-----------like a placenta



Rowan's bitter berries sweeten after frost



Hoa Nguyen makes her home in Austin, Texas with Dale Smith and their two sons Waylon and Keaton. Each of her books of poems are glorious and should be hunted down and read and then shared. Longhouse published What Have You in 2008. Her newest book is Hecate Lochia from Hot Whiskey Press




© 2009 by Hoa Nguyen & Longhouse Publishers