Writing
Writing
Two pieces from my Scholastic Art & Writing Awards writing: a poem and a personal essay.
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Poem8 stanzasRegional Silver Key, Poetry · 2024
Two Worlds
Two worlds but just one soulUncovered from the green hills of homeTarnished a bit from the journeyBut still a powerful gold.
Leaving Xiamen — the green hills and strawberry fields, the pond where I played tag, coconut trees in the fall — and finding one self across two homes.
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Personal essayabout 3 min read
Socks-Free
A sour, offensive stench slowly pervades the air in the dorm hallway. “Put on your socks! Stinky-feet!”
A barefoot childhood in Xiamen, a chorus camp in Autun, France, and the nickname that came with it.