Poet Anonymous Poems

There are a lot of mirrors in my school
I don't remember seeing myself
Not in textbooks or in chalkboards
Or the tips of teachers tongues
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This is a safe space,
Don't be afraid,
You are in a safe place,
Feel free to share anything that you're feeling,
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If you ask me if I'm fluent in Chinese, I will tell you my Chinese is a ghost lodged in my throat. A dried up flower I tore from the ground long ago, rootless.

My Chinese is missing pictures in a photo album: the first day of preschool, a mouth full of useless characters, ancient taste buds numbing out of existence, leaving the bitter aftertaste of a new language.
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