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Four Poems

Four Poems P H A N N H I E N H A O t ri vial de ta il s Inside an old car a heart sat behind the wheel To circulate along the blood avenues Where battles and a chaotic retreat occurred In which my father was killed I grazed her breasts and was wondering why she did not smile It was what I had waited for all night inside a hut lit by a lantern Her teeth resembled the keyboard of an unplugged organ As a carpenter Christ should have made himself a coffin beforehand Maybe that's only a trivial detail But we live in a practical world, and trivial details are often what generate beliefs How to jump from the stove to the pan and back without tripping My face is a doorknob If you turn and enter, behind it is a void I have to stock with things to convert into a warehouse before sudden dusk Wolves are sharing the corpse of a crow and hurling blood at the sky There are fixed values and unnecessary rituals carried out because of instinctual fear "Ah, in the end He has come," the secretary says, bowing to http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Manoa University of Hawai'I Press

Four Poems

Manoa , Volume 14 (1) – Apr 1, 2002

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P H A N N H I E N H A O t ri vial de ta il s Inside an old car a heart sat behind the wheel To circulate along the blood avenues Where battles and a chaotic retreat occurred In which my father was killed I grazed her breasts and was wondering why she did not smile It was what I had waited for all night inside a hut lit by a lantern Her teeth resembled the keyboard of an unplugged organ As a carpenter Christ should have made himself a coffin beforehand Maybe that's only a trivial detail But we live in a practical world, and trivial details are often what generate beliefs How to jump from the stove to the pan and back without tripping My face is a doorknob If you turn and enter, behind it is a void I have to stock with things to convert into a warehouse before sudden dusk Wolves are sharing the corpse of a crow and hurling blood at the sky There are fixed values and unnecessary rituals carried out because of instinctual fear "Ah, in the end He has come," the secretary says, bowing to

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ManoaUniversity of Hawai'I Press

Published: Apr 1, 2002

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