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The Great-Aunts
by Hannah Nguyen

Assembly of
bright floral
coats and
dresses

easy-moving, aromatic
flowers of my
girlhood

how I watched their
illumined, heirloom—
jeweled hands

keepers of old stories told over
lace tablecloth,
milk with tea at
noon as they

orated; like
papyrus under the spell of
quill, imprinted
rooms where the wind
smoothly
traveled,

undulating the
voile curtains,
whisper upon the wickerwork, its
x's woven as these women to my
youth graced by
zephyrs.



 

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