Thu Anh Nguyen
Augur
I’ve never trusted a groundhog,
or a forecast because
I just wait for the ladybugs
to appear out of nowhere,
one at a time,
and then in a bloom,
teaching me about taking refuge,
the slow inching towards warmth.
Thu Anh Nguyen is a poet whose Vietnamese name actually translates to “rare book, scholar,” so she believes that almost anything can have meaning. You can find her at thuanhnguyen.com.