POETRY At the start of summer I thought / FICTION They must have been born with this connection to their hands, to each other, and if that was indeed the case, then why hadn’t I been born with this gift?
"The Lover" and Two Poems
only love could make my body
welcome the earth.
Trespassing
Nghiem Tran
Nghiem Tran was born in Vietnam and raised in Kansas. He is a Kundiman Fellow and MFA candidate at Syracuse University. His writing has appeared in American Poetry Review, Hyphen, wildness, and elsewhere.