They have always been glittering, since my dad was a mathematician
在我的爸爸還是個數學家的時候，它們就是五光十色的
Using me to subtract wisdom teeth, he got a ducky
用我減去智齒，他得到了一只小鴨子
I remember the day I left Colombia remarkably well. It was May 5, 1989. A Friday. I was twelve years old, and I shivered in the new pleated shorts and button-down shirt my mother had made for me. Medellín’s international airport had been built high up in the cloud forest of the Andes, in the municipality of Rionegro…
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When she first came upon the listing on the SF Korean website, Hana thought it was a scam: a fully furnished master bedroom in Japantown for $750 a month, with homemade meals available on the weekends. The pictures looked too immaculate to be real, but her mother insisted she apply anyway, claiming to have a good feeling about it…
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It’s Friday at 4 p.m., and the after-work crowd begins taking seats at the bar and pushing tables together. Beers are ordered, shots are poured, glasses are clinked with cheers to the weekend. Slowly, the noise level creeps to a roar that forces everyone to yell, punctuated by the occasional high-pitched scream, clapping, and explosions of laughter. It’s early—the sun is still up, so there’s no cover for dirty deeds typically done in darkness.
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i.
The name I gave my body I thought meant dream but it doesn’t it means
this small thing.
ii.
I was already ghost.
Our bodies thaw in pools around our legs—
the blue of one ocean would replace another:
I have nothing to show for it
my friend said of her life
like she was dying in a hospital bed somewhere
her life to be sold by a real-estate agent
hurrying in heels
who couldn’t possibly show my friend’s life
without something,
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