Yvonne Bird is an artist-writer-student currently haunting the north eastern corridor of the United States. A lover of linguistics, she has noticed that people from Venezuela, Guatemala, and Connecticut all call their land ' America'.

When Asked: Where Are You From 

the rivers are veins
to help break the land apart
dividing us too

 
    
When Asked: Are You Fluent?
 
my america
in nineteen different tongues
i can say hello
 
 
 
 
Chokdo, Takeshima
 
the bamboo bends
but does not break
so much like a spine
but beware the hatchet
which cuts one into two
regardless of name