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Angel & Hannah

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by Ishle Yi Park


  To my daughters —

  my life’s sweetest blessings —

  Sulei Bada Hiva Kai’a Xaxa

  &

  Senai’a Atarangi

  ~ Saranghe ~

  To my first love

  to all first loves

  to all lovers

  to all love

  to love

  love

  photo: © Sulei Watene

  Ishle Yi Park is the author of The Temperature of This Water, published by Kaya Press. Her first book is the winner of an Asian American Literary Award (Members’ Choice) and the PEN Open Book Award. Her poems have appeared in publications such as Ploughshares, Manoa, Barrow Street, and Century of the Tiger: One Hundred Years of Korean Culture in America. She is the first woman to become the poet laureate of Queens, New York. She lives in Hawai’i with her family.

  ishleyipark.com

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