The Woman Who Waited For The Return Of Her Husband Poem by RIC BASTASA

at the ho chi minh
fine arts center there
was this wooden sculpture
of a woman with long hair
and long hands and they
gave the impression of
a strong wind blowing them
towards the left direction
and the flow of the hair and
the hands create the sound
of a river which i think i
could never step into.

she said this was the woman
who missed her guerrilla husband
who left her that evening
and since then had not returned.