I admire this sheep~ By Teresa Mei Chuc

its intestines wound
up, catgut

i am thinking of
mozart’s symphonies
beethoven
bach

violinists playing
on this string, organ
stripped and twisted
once in the stomach
of a sheep
warm and surrounded
by the pumping
of blood

and the beautiful
music it makes

i am thinking of
my body

what part
could make
such sounds

my heart
perhaps
the way it
beats on a
page

my leg bones
for drumming

my hair
what sound
could my hair
make?
not strong enough
to be strung
on a bow

~


Author Bio:
Teresa Mei Chuc was born in Saigon, Vietnam and immigrated to the U.S. under political asylum with her mother and brother shortly after the Vietnam War. Teresa earned a Masters in Fine Arts in Creative Writing (poetry) from Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont. She is the author of Red Thread: Poems (2012).