1 25 4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource All Anthology Poems Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all poems currently available to read in the Anthology. To browse poems by author identity tags, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Poem Contains text information about individual contributors to the anthology. Text Any textual data included in the document 雲橫秦嶺家何在 —Han Yu (韓愈) Mountain, o mountain, your white hat and deep blue wrinkles bounding the mortal skyline, bounding the world that my eyes can see. Clouds, o clouds, soft and nimble as a green armorless brigade of routine solitude marching in to liberate the sizzling city, tear down alien vermilion suns and bring me solace. A lonely, lonely solace as here I sit, lofty heavens rumbling beneath me, and when I sit here, looking at you, I remember you are the direction of home. Mountain, o mountain! My home, it is far west, eastern but far west, east and west conjoined at a made-up line. When you are here, sunlight over snow caps, sunlight over cloud mantles, my home is asleep, its silty river curled up like a gourd-patterned cat. I have friends there, just as there are mountains there, uplifted by gods fighting, punctured by self-appointed gods of chemistry. We used to be together, just as the mountains are still together, huddled cozily in green—lovely little things. But today I am far away, and seeing you jut out all brazenly, I think of my homebound friends. Mountain, o mountain, how do I get to see my friends? I mean, I see them every day, electronic reductions of themselves before I switch them off, shove them into my pocket, returning to other things, other people, other loves. But a love of sharp mountains is unlike a love of the rounded, eroded ones, for it burns brighter, but it rarely cuts deep. The age of the earth, the soul of it all, draws from the lovely little things called hills, eroded mountains of time past, stirred out of unquiet sadness, a greenish gentle memory. A memory of past friends. You see, mountain, I miss my friends more than a telescope misses stars on a clouded eve, more than trees miss the warmth of sun in the winter, but just as much as a bird, grand-daughter of grass-eating ankylosaurs, longs southernly when seasonal unreadiness shrivels her wings. She rarely misses home, but when she does, it warms her, it churns her, beckoning to her with the promise of love. So she tries to fly again, soaring over you mountain, but the south, the south of her home, is an abstract place, for she misses home, but it is the missing that makes it home. —<a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/638">Nguyễn Bình</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter to the Olympic Mountains Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Nguyễn Bình Author Tag: activist Author Tag: polyamorous Author Tag: queer Author Tag: Southeast Asian Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource All Anthology Poems Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all poems currently available to read in the Anthology. To browse poems by author identity tags, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Poem Contains text information about individual contributors to the anthology. Text Any textual data included in the document I ate your picture on the desert road, Conflating snow with limestone mountains. It was my first time ever seeing snow— What a normal thing in an abnormal state! You were all happy by the wilted flowers. There stood my hugging cousins, my grizzled aunt. I called your names, but it slid down my throat, Like winds, or empty dreams that fly the day. What insanity! Who injected these thoughts in me? I didn’t ask for this photo, didn’t ask for this snow. Family means nothing to me! No, sometimes it does. I do think of it in intervals, but never this intense. Maybe it’s freezing in the half-real light of dusk, And I hate to fossilize in solitude. —<a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/638" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Nguyễn Bình</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Snow Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Nguyễn Bình Author Tag: activist Author Tag: polyamorous Author Tag: queer Author Tag: Southeast Asian Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource All Anthology Poems Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all poems currently available to read in the Anthology. To browse poems by author identity tags, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Poem Contains text information about individual contributors to the anthology. Text Any textual data included in the document It would be lovely to have you by my side, to stand at the tassel-draped doorway and watch you fumbling around, figuring out what texture to bestow on your cookies, what color of string lights to hang on the wall, what presents to give your friends when suddenly the sky is just the right shade of red. I thought of you when I was still with you, before we parted, before I found those thoughts to be just the right shade of red. Let me tell you, imaginary epislatory you, that I haven’t felt so glad, so unburdened— almost like a bear peeking out of a den in the rain-warmed earth to find burgeoning warbler springtime—ever since I last sat with you. I’m not sure if I am drawn to you, so to speak, but my memory likes to draw me a sketch of improbable you, and I figure it would be lovely to have you near, to see you daily, albeit at a better time. Nghề riêng nhớ ít tưởng nhiều, they say, but unlike them, I’m not yet desirous to be near you, so to speak, for I am at sea, and you’re in the landlocked desert, both of us fumbling with our own things, baking our own cookies, hanging our own string lights, and everything is just the wrong shade of red. It would be lovely to have you by my side, in a future far, far ahead of me and you, the way the sea and the desert are both far from the bear’s little den. I will think of you a little bit every day, every week, every waxing moon, maybe sometimes wondering if there’ll ever be a right shade of red. —<a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/638" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Nguyễn Bình</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Shade of Red Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Nguyễn Bình Author Tag: activist Author Tag: polyamorous Author Tag: queer Author Tag: Southeast Asian Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Contributing Authors Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all authors who have contributed to the Anthology. To browse authors by identities, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Author Contains a poem written in plain text. Author Biography Biographical information about a person. Nguyễn Bình (they/them) is a writer from Hanoi, Vietnam. Their poetry has been featured in The Common and Puerto del Sol, among others, and their translation of the medieval Vietnamese verse novel The Tale of Kiều is soon to be released by Major Books in March 2025. Bình is currently a PhD student in Astronomy at the University of Washington, studying the clustering around red galaxies in the early Universe. Poems List of poems attributed to the author. <ul><li><a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/639" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Shade of Red</a></li> <li><a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/640" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Snow</a></li> <li><a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/641" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Letter to the Olympic Mountains</a></li> </ul> Region The region of Washington State in which the author lives or has lived. North Puget Sound Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Nguyễn Bình Author Tag: activist Author Tag: polyamorous Author Tag: queer Author Tag: Southeast Asian