On the screen, an old man is dying in his bed. / The adults are talking / loudly, two feet away from each other. / From their voices, I can tell their hatred / for that old man, a thin blanket to his chin.

‘Children are playing soldier. / Fetuses ripped from wombs dangle / in nearby trees. Yet he opened his mouth / and a flood of love melodies poured out.’

Three generations of Cambodian women in my family wrestle with the inherited trauma of the Khmer Rouge

I will float down the stream / until it ends. / Until it ends, the mines avoid me.

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