Month: December 2010

Exhibit A: “After a first attraction when they were each married to someone else, a couple are married after intervening years.” (ages: 44 and 46)

Exhibit B: “The bride works in Manhattan as a theater historian and president of the Al Hirschfeld Foundation; the bridegroom is a philanthropist.” (ages: 74 and 91)

Exhibit C: “The couple met by e-mail in May 2009 after a match was brought into play by a friend of Ms. C’s family.” (ages: 26 and 28)

Exhibit D: “The couple met on JDate and were engaged 51 days after their first date.” (ages: 28 and 31)

Exhibit E: “The couple were prevented from getting closer for a while, when she visited him with her two cats as chaperones.” (ages: 31 and 39)

I can see hundreds of conversations taking place right now. I’m out of all of them. I’m the ghost of things unsaid. the world is spinning and books are being read and analyzed and I’m alone in my bedroom plucking strings. Everyone knows they’re not supposed to ask me about Korea or my favorite author or why I always draw people with pointy fingers. Everyone knows I don’t have an answer. Documents filled with letters. 100101010100001 line after line after line. Print. Staple. Hand in. Silence. Back to my room—what do you think, ukulele? You sound like my heart.

The Foreign Language Center at the University of Tsukuba has kindly accepted some of my writings for publication at their journal. Here are the links to the pdf files for you to read. They’re under my real name, which I’m not really happy about but oh well. I hope you enjoy them.

Aurora

Bear Trap

Sea of Walls

tear my hair away
shrink me into perfection
make me a woman