~for Ze Yang, R.I.P.
Come, father, let’s go
To your new home, a throne
Of mountains. The foothills
For your pedestal, two peaks
For your armrests, the Sierra Nevada
For your crown. In this halo
Of hills, among dust and wind,
Cradled by a clear stream
To quench your thirst
And rinse your feet, lighted
By a fiery sun rising
Over your shoulders.
About the author:
Soul Vang is the author of Song of the Cluster Bomblet (forthcoming from Blue Oak Press, 2019) and To Live Here (Imaginary Friend Press, 2014).
Poet, educator, and U.S. Army veteran, Vang received his Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from California State University, Fresno, and is an editorial member of the Hmong American Writers’ Circle (HAWC).
Vang’s writing has appeared in Academy of American Poets (poets.org), Water~Stone Review, Abernathy Magazine, Asian American Literary Review, Fiction Attic Press, In the Grove, The Packinghouse Review, Southeast Asia Globe, and The New York Times, among others.
His awards and honors include the 2014 Imaginary Friend Press Poetry Prize and the 2015 Horizon Artist Award from the Fresno Arts Council.
