His poem, "Halt X," in our Arts in Asia folio unveiled itself while I was on the phone with my Vietnamese girlfriend. She doesn't write poetry. Doesn't read much with the exception of Jodi Picoult and Nicholas Sparks. She asked about Drunken Boat, about what I do there, about how to understand poetry. I told her that Drunken Boat was like a zoo. That I was an entry-level food prep for the elephant seals. And that poetry is like a tiger at the zoo.