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| From Perceptions Truong Tran about discovery and the dumpster behind the supermarket the stack of magazines with naked women of how in life there are rules never spoken or written but learned deliberate like that day I stood and walked for the first time this I hold on to when in need of making sense even now I swear at the age of twenty-seven thirty-five fifty-four I could go to a dumpster in the heart of suburbia in a brown paper bag and there it would be don’t ask why it’s just that way that children learn of rules before they learn of truth about discovery and the dumpster and the stack of magazines hidden in the stack a magazine not for but of men I need not say more for this is private is true is the truth like beginnings and discoveries how they come in intervals again and again
Truong Tran’s poems have been published in Zyzzyva, The American Voice, and Prairie Schooner, among others. The poems in this issue are from The Book of Perceptions, published by Kearny Street Workshop. Truong’s second collection of poems, Placing the Accents, was published by Apogee Press in 1999. |