Draw your name many
times stylized and
embarrassed
Call them
catkins yer name
writ there
Don’t pull the wild
amaranth I said
The old
Ford Galaxie 500 and cats
can guard the house
Who is crying
next to the thicket of birds?
I won’t I said again
lick the ass again
of the tyrant again
This appeared in the September 2015 issue.
Hoa Nguyen (hoa-nguyen.com) is a poet based in Toronto. Her collections include As long as Trees Last, Red Juice: Poems 1998-2008, and Violet Energy Ingots.
Mügluck is an award-winning illustrator who lives in Montreal. Her work has appeared in the New York Times and Air France Magazine.
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