Tim Nguyễn

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なんども^* – A SERIES OF HAIKU ON WAR

Bear torch for re-volts,
       brace an ember to nights so
bellicose —
                     bruised, moaned.

                        Let his wax 
          m e l t b’low
          the rheumy 
               fountain, 
                           drip-  -ping
‘tween quaking trenches.

Cast silhouettes at
the alter — napalm, gas for
            scandalous shadows,

’til night concedes, and
            the fiends, 
      witches, 
 ghasts on walls
c-ease to grunt and 
                              gasp —

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TIM NGUYỄN is a scientist whose PhD work aims to determine how our genes shape and pattern our face in the womb. His undergraduate poetry was published through the Iowa Chapbook Prize.