Infrasonic

The body consists of these convex and concave shapes. I look at forms, colors, and lines to see the body differently.

We have an extraordinary, beautiful world, and I hope we can keep our home.

The body of the dancer could only be a landscape. I was providing full attention to what was the most needed. I couldn’t lose myself in it.

Our 'heroism' resembles frail cries, it resembles waving our hands in the wind, and beautiful, but doomed dance around the fire.

I spend all my days in flight recounting / how I fell in love / with a crow – a black, lonesome speck in the winter sky.

This movement between worlds, a way to initiate a manifestation of our interiority in relation to another, is a vital social tool.

I was interested to feel the strength in my arms, to feel the strength in my body and to see people simply moving and the beauty in that.

Poetry directs a perspective of reality outside of how it is typically constructed. Our shared kinships as music in meaning.

To expand the possibilities for connection in spite of everything that wants us to disappear, this is the dream of the city.

We had only our bodies to offer as protest material, bodies that had already failed us in so many ways, but they would have to be enough.

"We have to re-earn our right to be on this planet", to be with this planet, to be this planet.

Hoa Nguyen's "A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure", directs poetry toward history, hauntings, and diasporic experiences.