stacey tran

Stacey Tran is my friend, and I'm pretty sure you all will love her.



Stacey is wonderful with words. More wonderful than I could ever be. It's beautiful. And this week she had a poetry reading, through her own publishing company that she started. Proactive, right?? She published her first chatbook with gorgeous poetry. I read it on my way to Portland yesterday and it has this sort of magical quality, very romantic kind of quality. Here's my favorite poem of hers, so you can get a feeling of her style:

a day at the planterium

stacey tran

let's get lost in a coal rield

replaced by gold and neon

ebbing through violet millennia

encapsulate ourselves in the dark dust

skewed with bad news

it is almost black-

is black-

sweetheart, these are for you

a dozen red gamma rays

roaring

while you were gone

i found a box of recipes

for eclipses

and potions for equinoxes

at your wish

i can shatter the cosmos

or catch flying fire

in my pockets

to save for later

i even memorized

the formula for hot

showers of light

exploding into silent lust

scorching, and brilliant-

i've strung together

the planets for you

to swirl around your neck

but my satellite spun

the opposite direction

and i forgot about gift wrap...

darling, forgive me

look at what i made

with 8.5 x 11 inches

of light - i've folded

it up into a ball

let's play catch

let's give each other space

Uhh, yeah. BEAUTIFUL. Check out more of her stuff at http://pulling-back-the-highway.tumblr.com/.

loveee