Vol. 44 No. 1 — Summer 2024
Navigating tension appears to be the heart of this open-themed collection.
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Navigating tension appears to be the heart of this open-themed collection.
Dear H. & S.,Hung high on your grandparents’ living room wall is a grainy photograph taken 36 years ago in Vietnam, the origin of one of the worlds I inhabit. Standing in a sunny courtyard
I. The mountains were parched, their summer thirst unquenched by shallow stores of snowpack. The reservoirs were dangerously low. Each day, the sky (and my nose) filled with smoke that blew in from California forest
and with this lineage
I run my hands
over my stomach,
my thighs, hug my cheeks.
whisper, I love you.
My sacred space is everywhere, though for only a brief moment because with each step, each breath, I am in another space.
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