MAY WITH ITS VARIOUS CHINESE MEANINGS
by Clara Hsu
May 美 is beautiful.
May, your tail 尾 is showing beneath a corpse!
May, you are the last.
May-May, little 妹 sister.
May-May is delicious 美味.
May-May May-May
little sister 妹妹 not yet 未 beautiful 美.
May-May May-May
妹妹 little sister mmmm 美味 delicious.
Oh May-May
Oh May May May May
May May May May
May-May
you, beautiful 美
what a tail 尾
my last 尾
sister. 妹
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Clara Hsu practices the art of multi-dimensional being: mother, musician, purveyor of Clarion Music Center (1982-2005), traveler, translator, and poet. She has co-hosted the monthly San Francisco Open Mic Poetry Podcast TV Show since 2009 with John Rhodes. In 2013 she co-founded Poetry Hotel Press with Jack Foley. Clara has been published internationally. Her book of poetry, The First to Escape, is due to be released in the summer of 2014.
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