Two Love Letters
Lily Hoang


I.

At night, I fold your name in origami doves and blow, hard, and you are disassembled come morning.



II.

For you, I sollute my body with all things dark—coffee, tar, molasses, ink—hoping to allude dimension.


Lily Hoang won a 2009 PEN/Beyond Margins award for her second book, Changing.

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