From the Archive: Allison Chow (CAROUSEL 17)
ALLISON CHOW
Some Three Hours in the Evening
of August Sixteenth When I Am Nineteen
One of my grandfathers
looks like
a Chinese Dustin Hoffman.
He has gotten
more handsome with age.
When we go out to restaurants
on Saturdays
I open doors for him
because he is decades older
than I am
but more
because my reverence
for him cannot be contained
silently
or only within me.
Really it is my honour
to open doors for him.
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Some Three Hours in the Evening…
appeared in CAROUSEL 17 (2005) — buy it here
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