Passing in the Middle Kingdom: When I Sleep
This poem When I Sleep was first published in an anthology released by the Asian American Women’s Artists Association Cheers to Muses. I believe there are still hard copies of […]
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Hawai’i: Stars and Pines
Diamond Head Cemetery. A Cook pine from New Caledonia. Yellow stars that poured from a tree? Anyone know the name? The ground as sky. The dead slumber. Decades pass. Beloved
Passing in the Middle Kingdom: Genus Mui Wo
This is Mui Wo at night. The path up to my former home. It’s wonderfully quiet and there’s a calm truth to being outside with the frogs and the darkness
Adolescence and Clothing: Inner and Outer Selves
These patched retro Levi’s jeans are from my very early adolescence, fashion-wise–from that leftover phase of hippy rebellion. As someone from the GenX cut-off year, I was influenced by this
Passing in the Middle Kingdom: The Rape of Pink Lily
When I lived in Luk Tei Tong, one day I looked out onto the green bog and saw this perfect lily: a Red Oriental Lily. It struck me as so
Gods and Pineapples: The Original 1.5 Generation Korean Americans
Gods and Pineapples. These two ideas and objects defined my family and many others for a century. This is from a decades long project of mine and so I’ll be