Unused Baby
By Hoa Nguyen
Unused baby blood and this is
how you motion with hands
clotty leaving
You have your apparatus
being the Frog Husband and I burn
your frog skin to keep you
in the shape I prefer
Chimes You wrote in your apple
box Elegant neck
I tried to glue the ripped
paper back to the religious
art but it doesn't work
Making a mess of it
Wasp friend landed on my
shoulder sparkle to say This place
we are in is a place
Broil the asparagus
Frog heart
apparatus
Wash towels and rags
on Wednesdays
Copyright Credit: Hoa Nguyen, "Unused Baby" from As Long as Trees Last. Copyright © 2012 by Hoa Nguyen. Reprinted by permission of Wave Books and the author.
Source: As Long as Trees Last (Wave Books, 2012)