Week of 1/26

22 01 2009

New Year’s Day!
Noodles for breakfast,
sweet rice cakes.
A red envelope stuffed with money
in my pocket.
And lions in the street outside.
I fly downstairs to be there
when they come –
leaping, pouncing,
prancing, roaring,
jumping, dancing,
shaking their neon manes.
Drums beat
feet stamp
hands clap
voices shout
Chinatown,
this is Chinatown!

-Kam Mak
(From My Chinatown)

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