Excerpts from
แ ล้ ว _ A N D _ T H E N _ E N T W I N E
By Jai Arun Ravine • 2011 • $18
Design by Sumet (Ben) Viwatmanitsakul

Of all possible transcriptions, “pull” and “marrow” were impossible beside themselves. She posed doubtfully before her own history. What tense and geology was this? Why did her knots restrain and strangle? She dug further into corpuscles and atomics, burned her palm to the thick braid of the rope and pulled. She did not have a desire to see her feet on sea bottom. “Trench” and “tread” were of no interest. She sewed the hems of her own hands back together so that she would still look diplomatic. Finally, she was too far away to see properly.

Jai Arun Ravine is a Thai American and luk kreung writer, dancer, video and performance artist. They received an MFA in Writing & Poetics from Naropa University. Ze is the author of the chapbook Is This January (Corollary Press, 2010) and creator of The Spiderboi Files. A Kundiman fellow, hir poetry, essays, reviews and visual art have appeared in Drunken Boat, Lantern Review, Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement, TinFish 18, Delirious Hem and Galatea Resurrects, among others.

Find Jai online at jaiarunravine.wordpress.com.

Read more about แ ล้ ว And Then Entwine at Doveglion Press.