A 2009 NEA Fellow in Literature, Laotian-American writer Bryan Thao Worra’s work is featured in over 70 international publications including Innsmouth Free Press, Dark Wisdom, Tales of the Unanticipated, Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, London Ghetto Poets, the Journal of the Asian American Renaissance and Illumen. He is the author of five collections of poetry including On The Other Side of the Eye, The Tuk-Tuk Diaries: My Dinner with Cluster Bombs, and Barrow. He is a Many Voices Fellow of the Playwrights Center and has received a 2009 Asian Pacific Leadership Award for the Arts from state Council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans. You can visit him at thaoworra.blogspot.com.
Swallowing the Moon
Some see an anonymous man or a thief of sheep.
Some a goddess like Hina-i-ka-malama or Chang’e.
Perhaps a princess of rabbits...