[a moon-witnessed tabby toes the ledge of a mortar-pocked wall] a moon-witnessed tabby toes the ledge of a mortar-pocked wallby day, hawkers who pre-date the war will sell mangos hereand in the potter's fields, a farmer will tend his cropsabove the… Read on blog or Reader The Rising Phoenix Review Read on blog or Reader [a moon-witnessed tabby toes the ledge of a mortar-pocked wall] By Elise Thi Tran The Rising Phoenix Review June 16 [a moon-witnessed tabby toes the ledge of a mortar-pocked wall] a moon-witnessed tabby toes the ledge of a mortar-pocked wall by day, hawkers who pre-date the war will sell mangos here and in the potter's fields, a farmer will tend his crops above the missing farmers and the missing farmers and two generations of undetonated bombs … i mean that my father once tasted a persimmon that moved him to tears that my stomach sleeptalks about shipwrecks & doorways that my feet can't pass a river without wanting to jump … some species of cicada slumber only in prime numbers they emerge roaring from the earth after septemdecimal darknesss atrophies all other words … what i am trying to say is that the mass they cut out of me wept for days and for days and for days after my discharge that somebody somewhere wakes mouth full of fifty-year blood By Elise Thi Tran Biography: Elise Thi Tran (she/her) is a Vietnamese-Filipina-American writer. She is the 2022 First Pages Prize winner, a Chicago Literary Club Collyer Fellow, and a fiction judge for NYC Midnight. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Blackbird, diode, the minnesota review, Salt Hill, Shō, and elsewhere. Find Elise on Instagram @elise.tran Comment

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