Angel & Hannah, Ishle Park [surface ebook reader .txt] 📗

To my brother, for surviving me, and for surviving with me. Saranghe. Gomahwuhyo.

To my daughters —

my life’s sweetest blessings —

Sulei Bada Hiva Kai’a Xaxa

&

Senai’a Atarangi

~ Saranghe ~

To my first love

to all first loves

to all lovers

to all love

to love

love

photo: © Sulei Watene

Ishle Yi Park is the author of The Temperature of This Water, published by Kaya Press. Her first book is the winner of an Asian American Literary Award (Members’ Choice) and the PEN Open Book Award. Her poems have appeared in publications such as Ploughshares, Manoa, Barrow Street, and Century of the Tiger: One Hundred Years of Korean Culture in America. She is the first woman to become the poet laureate of Queens, New York. She lives in Hawai’i with her family.

ishleyipark.com

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