Lantern Review: Issue 5

Ching-In Chen

your face
she wears molting not
a skin the pink
patch sun fried
the warm
sky

not
 
 
the
country I belong to, full
of rising leaves, resting
water buffalo, complete
houses in their places.

Let's not wait

holes
Let's not wait

the ground

to shatter. The girl

leads the way
home.

Note: This poem mashup was written in response to these Vietnamese children's paintings included in the SpeakPeace exhibit: “Agent Orange Infection—I Go to School with My Friend” and “Peaceful Country.”