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 NguyenHoa 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 by Mügluck
Draw your namemany
timesstylized and
embarrassed
Call them
catkinsyer name
writ there
Don’t pull the wild
amaranthI 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
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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