A Longhouse Birdhouse

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

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