Hoa Nguyen

Eve

I could be naked and eating
figs     Instead I’m a rib-woman
howling and chased
by a winged god-baby

My man is embarrassed

 

                              kicked out
                              of the world-garden
                                   to become farmers

Digressive Parenthesis

Make heart-shaped cakes
for the Queen of Heaven

Things that make you cry:
Geode stone pulse

That plant named wizard’s herb
When the state of Michigan sells

“pristine treaty-protected land”
to make a limestone mine

I dreamt the spider crossed
my eye and I crushed it

into my eye     Why is the first
day the hardest day?     The city

susurrus     Are us     especially
if you get to keep the money

From Violet Energy Ingots by Hoa Nguyen
Copyright © 2016 by Hoa Nguyen