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  • Incantation for Rebirth
  • Burlee Vang (bio)

Arise from earth & ash & hammered skull.From mortar shell & knife rust.

From blood grooves. From chattering woods& caves of karst. From mist

& thicket of bamboo. Umbilical vines.From trench feet. Monsoons & wet stones

& fish lips. From flaming thatch& spoiled harvest. From unsuckled

breasts. Hog belly & maggot brood.

Arise from womb, from cocoon.From wind, from song.

Into moth, into woman.Into tiger, into man. [End Page 121]

Burlee Vang

Burlee Vang (burleevang@hotmail.com) is one of the first published Hmong American voices. His works have appeared in Ploughshares, North American Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Massachusetts Review, and the anthologies Twentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Writers (2006) and Highway 99: A Literary Journey Through California's Great Central Valley (1996), among others. He holds an MFA from California State University, Fresno.

Copyright © 2010 MELUS, The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States
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