Afterland by Mai Der Vang

Author:Mai Der Vang
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-55597-964-5
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 2017-04-10T04:00:00+00:00

Final Dispatch from Laos

Concerning our hollow breasts,

Lice factions multiplying in our hair.

Concerning our unused stomachs,

Molars waiting to chew, taste buds

Obsolete. By then, we won’t remember

We’re alive. We’ll be the soil covered

In mines. Concerning last night’s

Attack, seven dead, five injured, four

Gone missing, three arms. Concerning

A forest in combat, alliance of trees,

Countercoup to the coup, concerning

Dominos. They’ll arrive to collect

Our eyes, but the vines will have eaten

Us up. As for our feet, we left them behind.

And as for our heads, they went foraging

For roots. With regard to shrapnel jutting

From a boy’s leg. An old man lured into

The fire by his dream. A woman cradling

Her intestines. With regard to orphans.

A sweet leaf unable to father any txiv.

A hand without. We are yet done,

The leftovers ever still waking

Inside the smoke of a hole.

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