LINGUAL BY WOOD
Amid fledglings,
Amid fledglings,
the wind pumped
cloud. Amid
mechanical fledglings,
the human
hands mimic
an eye amid
clouds. Amid infidel
clouds,
clouds.
Amid fledglings,
the edge of
cloud mechanized
hand,
I want to shower
I want a shower
trial of___
trial of ___
trial of___
trial of___
trial of ___
trial of___
trial of___
Amid fledglings,
this wo’ld,
that wo’ld,
not a foe of love
indifferent or
infamilial. Amid
infidel clouds,
cloude.
this wo’ld,
that wo’ld,
not a foe of love
indifferent or
infamilial. Amid
infidel clouds,
cloude.
Valerie Hsiung's two books of poetry, incantation inarticulate and under your face, were both published in fall 2013 by O Balthazar Press. Her first full-length song record, IS, or, The Moon Is Not Safe, will be released end of 2014 with an EP premiere at Shapeshifter Lab in November. Latest and notable poetry and writing can be found or is forthcoming in print and digital with American Letters & Commentary, Apiary, Denver Quarterly, Diode Poetry Journal, EOAGH: Journal of Arts, Hayden's Ferry Review, LOVEBook, New Delta Review, the PEN Poetry Series and VOLT. A child of both the Bluegrass hills of Cincinnati and the Mojave desert of Las Vegas, Hsiung now lives and works around Brooklyn and Louisville.