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according to google translate: Two Poems by Liana Fu

I grow up: I never learn / Chinese: I never go to China: we eat until our stomachs peached: we grow peaches on trees and they are moneyed: we bury / their hearts in the dirt: fullness is 貴 is: priceless:

By Liana Fu
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Liana Fu, Poetry Tuesday, poetry
September 24, 2019

swallow

according to google translate

Liana Fu is a Cantonese American writer grown from the sub/urban Midwest. She is currently a student at the University of Chicago, where she edits for Blacklight, a journal publishing work by artists of color. Her prose and poetry appear in Occulum Journal, Ghost City Review, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Hyphen Magazine, and The Fourth River. Find her at lianafu.com
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