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3 3 Love Poem to Onion the layers of you how can I uncover? Allium cepaof theamaryllis family succulent pungent bulb peeling by hand the layersof your skin layersneeded todelve intoyou skirtsyour physical body of your past your soul cut raw toget to thevery core of you idive intoyou rivers in place how toplummet how to sound out the innercore? you were powerful payment forbuilders of thepyramids as a child iplanted you watched your effervescent flowers blow in thewind thenpulled you by thestalks r4 erudite onion polyglot speaker ofmany cultures marinated in vinegar cut into triangles in my grief ieat you whole purple yellow white multitudinous colors of you your many curvaceous smiles bold orb amoon white asmy whitest sheet your heart spotless Love Poem to Basil in my garden i grow you Asian basil Italian basil a sweet scent emanates lilting a leaf sings A poet, writer, visual artist, and dancer, Mong-Lan (www.monglan.com) lefther native Vietnam on the last day of the evacuation of Saigon. Her books include Song of the Cicadas, Why Is the Edge Always Windy?, Love Poem Tofu & Other Poems, and her latest, Tango, Tangoing: Poems & Art. Honors include the Pushcart Prize, a Juniper Prize, a two-year Stegner Fellowship at Stanford, and a Fulbright Fellowship inVietnam. January-February 2009 i31 ...
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