Poetry

Ode to the Khmer-English Dictionary

Book cover with the wrinkles

of a woman’s back hand,

I have known you all my life,

Khmer-English Dictionary

— even as I tried to erase half of you,

even now as I can only speak

one page of you in both tongues,

one foot in each world,

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