Sam Roxas-Chua is the author of Fawn Language (2014), as well as Diary of Collected Summers, winner of the seventh annual Missouri Review’s Audio Competition in poetry. Born in the Philippines, he is at work on an MFA in creative writing from Pacific University. Roxas-Chua is the owner of the Poetry Loft in Eugene, Oregon, where he lives.

Of Blood and Stem

by Sam Roxas-Chua

If I had known
I would have saved the abacus
from the fire. I would have hidden
in the swannery until morning.

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