Amanda Galvan Huynh has received scholarships/fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and Sundress Academy for the Arts. She was a winner of a 2016 AWP Intro Journal Project Award and a finalist for the 2015 Gloria Anzaldúa Poetry Prize. Her work can be found in the following journals: RHINO Poetry, Muzzle Magazine, Tahoma Literary Review, Silk Road Review, The Boiler Journal, and others.



Also by Amanda Galvan Huynh: Three Poems Two Poems Tongue Untethered


Amanda Galvan Huynh

Only One of Us Can Breathe in Space

tell me my fears are paranoia taking the shape of my shadow dense as a night’s sky in an afternoon’s sun my shadow tracking onto someone’s lawn trespassing onto someone’s lawn because we are always trespassers waiting for hands to reach out to us to catch one of us by the neck of our identities white America’s hands latch on and wring until our skins both burn Let me go and they hold on so tight that they’re no longer holding on to me but onto the idea that only one of us can breathe in space only one of us belongs for a moment his fear of dying aligns with mine as he reaches for his gun a bullet asteroids into the Earth surrounded by teens — he’s pulling himself out of fear, he’s blackholing me into it



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