Poetry / September 2015

Sunflower Guardians

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 …

- by Hoa Nguyen
Illustration by Mügluck, Updated 12:19, Apr. 13, 2021 | Published 10:07, Aug. 20, 2015This article was published over a year ago. Some information may no longer be current.
illustration of man in forest
Illustration by Mügluck

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 (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
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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