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vietnamese girl

in her manhattan high
school ten years later

art assignment to sketch
what she thinks of what

she sees holding a conch
shell to her ear she draws

a double rowed dilapidated
shack village scene smoke

storming from windows
random debris puddles

a multi-colored sky
christmas tree sparsely

decorated swollen bellied
people wandering around

a larger indigent girl
figure isolated beside

the caption reads: oh my
god I just looking for my house
please help me in my town


Janet Cannon

Previously published in
Helicon Nine














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