Out of the Alphabet Horn<\/p>\n
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tumbles the fruit and fire of my life,
\nthe heart and harvest of words.
\nAs a child I learned to breathe soft O\u2019s
\nand Ah\u2019s, click T\u2019s and K\u2019s, letters<\/p>\n
strung like beads of stone.
\nOur ancestors survived on oxen, inverted
\nthe yoke to form A. Clans clung to seeds
\nof insight and drew a bow on the eye<\/p>\n
of history. They predicted with patterns:
\nB hogans standing to guard the rivers,
\nV hooks for prodding horses with H-fence
\nprotections, O\u2019s in the eyes of osprey,<\/p>\n
M\u2019s estuary. Letters tumbled to me
\nover centuries. Even Einstein withdrew
\nfrom questions of monkey tail\u2019s Q,
\nastonished at history ahead of itself.<\/p>\n
There is always room in the beta
\nfor the Buddha, bract of the scauler willow,
\nwomen with eyes in their hands,
\ndrawing the unpredictable bow.<\/p>\n
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“Out of the Alphabet Horn” is reprinted from\u00a0Tattoos on Cedar,\u00a0<\/em>2006.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Kay Mullen\u2019s work has appeared in a variety of poetry journals and anthologies, most recent journals: Valparaiso<\/em> Poetry Journal, Appalachia,\u00a0<\/em>Wrist Magazine,<\/em> San<\/em> Pedro River<\/em> Review<\/em>. She has authored three full-length poetry collections, Let Morning Begin<\/em>, 2001, A Long Remembering: Return to Vietnam, <\/em>2006, <\/em>and most recent, Even the Stones, <\/em>2012. Kay received an MFA in poetry, Rainier Writing Workshop,Pacific Lutheran University.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Out of the Alphabet Horn tumbles the fruit and fire of my life, the heart and harvest of words. As a child I learned to breathe soft O\u2019s and Ah\u2019s, click T\u2019s and K\u2019s, letters strung like beads of … Continue reading