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Haiku for Home

By JOSHUA NGUYEN | 13 JUN 2018

By Viviane Sassen — Courtesy of Pixabay © Pexels

Adopted oak tree
Has a mid-life crisis, goes
Home to find its roots

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.

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Origin Stories

By ASLI MAHDI

My black is a story of night and day.
My black is a story of mud and clay.

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