If You Go to Bed Hungry
(an excerpt)
If you go to bed hungry, your soul will get up and steal cold rice from the pot.
Stop playing with fire before the moon rises or you’ll pee in your sleep.
Sweeping the floor after dark sweeps wealth and good fortune out the door.
Fork dropped: a gentleman will visit. Spoon: a bashful lady.
The poem in its entirety can be found on the Poetry Foundation site.
About Angela: She is the author of Blood Orange (Willow Books, 2013). Her second collection, What Happens is Neither, is forthcoming in 2021 from Four Way Books.
Perhaps that is why good things never last long with self: she is always sweeping the floor just before she goes to bed!
Stay tuned.
Kanlaon 
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