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Tresha Faye Haefner's avatar

Has anyone else written about their home town? I'm curious what skeletons linger in the backgrounds of your places of origin. Post here if you've got poems or stories.

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Jackie Chou's avatar

I just found this unpublished poem.

Revisiting Chinatown, My Hometown

You beckon me

to your paper lanterns

and quaint houses

your library

before it moved

to a new location

the sound

of catalog drawers

opening, closing

your cotton kimono

slung over me

on Halloween

your Alpine park

still grassy

for taichi

and your hills

always too steep

to climb

Chinatown

your days are as dark

as your nights

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