nguyễn-nguyễn

with animal teeth ¹ a blush tears itself in half deep ² bounty, its finite grace ³ firm, oblique, accepting everything with the same ⁴ like a god: that which manifests ⁵ is it not drama? ⁶ whose modes of coagulation and cohabitation ⁷ draw chalk lines between ⁸ our counterparts, ⁹ into the maniac murmurs of that impossible carcass economy ¹⁰ those seventeen-year locusts hanging off the trees ¹¹

¹ Barbara Jane Reyes
² Anne Carson
³ Rodrigo V. Dela Peña Jr.
⁴ John Ashbery
⁵ Joshua Corey
⁶ Don Mee Choi
⁷ Stephen Burt
⁸ Divya Victor
⁹ Adrienne Rich
¹⁰ Daniel Borzutsky
¹¹ Paul Muldoon