The Formal Reception

I dress up
for one of life's
formal
receptions

clip on my head
one fall of false
fake hair

tame my unruly
tresses with
the spiked hairpin
of forbearance

let fall my
padeikthantara
fringe or bangs

add on two
boastful
bling bling
ear rings

then - for defense
cover myself with
my stole --

There -

I'm all dressed up

to go.

English translation copyright Kyi May Kaung
4-4-2011

Mother Rape

Mother Rape

Mother Rape

Mother Rape

by Kyi May Kaung

All the trees are gone

to cook someone’s dinner

or turned into guns —

the orchids are torn from the trees

clinging with every ounce

of their being, taking bark with them.

"Sha! Sha!" or "Kill! Kill!" The war cry during the Boxer Rebellion in China. Acrylic on paper, 12x18", copyright Kyi May Kaung.

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