Joshua Nguyen is a Kundiman Fellow. He has been published in The Offing, The Acentos Review, Freezeray Poetry, Button Poetry, Birds Thumb and The Texas Review. He is a tapioca connoisseur and plays an aggressive-tight strategy in poker. He is a MFA candidate at the University of Mississippi.

WIT TEA

After I Was Mistaken for the Stripper While Delivering Barbeque to an All-White Bachelorette Party

By JOSHUA NGUYEN

I am the lamb’s wool and the wolf crying beneath thin skin. Lick between my ribs.