Bailey Davis
Love poem as strings of inarticulation
Chau Anh Nguyen
you make me so-
lute
finger my string-
ent life open
I’m dissolving
in your skin and scent-
ences
tender your words
to me I want your last
name with the rolling r-
dour of sweat down
your shoulder your waist-
ed afternoons on me
your mine-
field that I take
my siestas in
I’m falling for-
saken by all my past bitter-
patter pitter patter on the window
it’s spring
that I taste on your lips
so please-
ing I open my eyes and beg
that they do the talking
Chau Anh Nguyen or Nguyễn Châu Anh, is a writer born and raised in Hanoi, Viet Nam. They are currently a student at Kenyon College majoring in English and sociology. Their poems are published or forthcoming in The Margins, The Offing, Frontier Poetry, wildness, among others. They would love to talk to you at twitter @chau_anh_
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