Festival of Writers
Rensselaerville, NY
August 16, 2014
4:00 p.m.
Five Nights of Genius Literature Showcase
Frye Art Museum
Seattle, WA
August 27, 2014
6:15 p.m.
Stranger Genius Awards Ceremony
Moore Theatre
Seattle, WA
October 18, 2014
7:00 p.m.
Wednesday, July 23, 2014
Sunday, March 16, 2014
Friday, January 03, 2014
reaping
troubled that my first experience
with sweet cherries should be
bleached maraschinos bathed
in red 40 & dropped into a coke
float or perched atop a banana
split, my father drove the kids
to the nearest orchard in Riverside
Co. where we harvested to
our hearts’ content,
limbs heavy with orbs
I reached w/ a ladder,
in the June heat our bodies
grew brown as Mexican
migrant workers, my mother shaded
her face & skin fair
in contrast to my own,
she a Hsiue, my father a Pai
together we gorged on ruby
red crop, not knowing
the origins of Bing - the Chinese
foreman’s heirloom fruit
a cultivar bred a century before
by a tenant farmer forborn
the passage home
troubled that my first experience
with sweet cherries should be
bleached maraschinos bathed
in red 40 & dropped into a coke
float or perched atop a banana
split, my father drove the kids
to the nearest orchard in Riverside
Co. where we harvested to
our hearts’ content,
limbs heavy with orbs
I reached w/ a ladder,
in the June heat our bodies
grew brown as Mexican
migrant workers, my mother shaded
her face & skin fair
in contrast to my own,
she a Hsiue, my father a Pai
together we gorged on ruby
red crop, not knowing
the origins of Bing - the Chinese
foreman’s heirloom fruit
a cultivar bred a century before
by a tenant farmer forborn
the passage home
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