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2017 Handley Award Prize for Poetry

Liting Chen / ​The Phone

The phone is ringing again,

My mother wants to know

how I’m adapting in America.

However, I cannot

tell her that the linguistic battles I cannot overcome.

And I cannot

let her worry about my unknown future as I could.

The phone is ringing again,

My mother wants to know

what I’m learning in America.

However, I cannot

tell her that cultural conflictions I run into.

And I cannot

let her sense the color discrimination as I do.

The phone is ringing again,

My mother wants to know if I’m safe in America.

However, I cannot

tell her that the mass shooting I am surrounded.

And I cannot

let her fear of the violent threats as I would.

The phone is ringing again,

I cannot

let my mother go through the brutal reality as I do.

But no matter how much I have been through,

I will tell her
​
the American dream I still believe.
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  • Healing Arts Chapbook No.6
  • 2022 Handley Awards
  • About
    • PCC Inscape Instagram
  • Feral Parrot : The Blog
  • INTERVIEWS
  • Inscape Alumni Board
  • SUBMISSIONS
  • ISSUE ARCHIVE
    • 2016 Fall Online
    • 2016 Sppring Online
    • 2017 Fall Online
    • 2017 Print Issue - Manifesto TOC
    • 2018 Fall Print Issue - Frankenstein TOC
    • 2018 FA Frankenstein Companion
    • 2018 Summer Online
    • 2018 Fall Folio - VOTE
    • 2018 Fall Spirituality
    • 2019 Celebrating Dia De Los Muertos
    • 2019 SPR Mental Health Companion >
      • Issue Intro
    • 2019 Fall Folio -- Moon Moon
    • 2019 Fall Folio
    • 2020 Summer Folio
    • 2020 Feb Folio
    • 2021 Feb Folio