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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ADIOS, VAYA CON DIOS, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: (scene:
Last Line: A kiss on each cheek to soften the blows
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


AMERICAN ACTRESS (1907-1961), by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Anna may wong
Last Line: Speaking chinese %with american accent
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


AND IF I SAID 'MING' TO YOU, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Would you hear me
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


ASIDE FROM THE TREES IN COLUMBUS PARK, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Forgetting the fan-shaped leaves of wind %and ripple
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


BEEKMAN DOWNTOWN, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: The elevator smells of an operation
Last Line: The moment they enter the door
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


BEHIND THE CHATTER, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: You can have the ocean
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


BREAD, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Come walk the streets of the bowery where time is not
Last Line: Bundles of raggedy andy dolls %and tell me you care
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


BREAD #2, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Black voices hit the air
Last Line: Archie shepp's fire escape %a prostitute's window
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


CANTONESE OPERA AT SUN SING THEATER, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Diamonds glitter in black hair
Last Line: The rumble of the night train to brooklyn
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


CELEBRATION, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bravo for wondrous circumstance
Last Line: Celebrate the one asian american in the crowd
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


CHAUL, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Chinese %silk
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


CHINA, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: On west lake
Last Line: Crouching in the dark
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


CHINATOWN HEARTBREAK, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Uncertain of the days to come
Last Line: Nights when love lit up her lanterns
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


CHINATOWN SIGN, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sweet olives
Last Line: 4 for 10c
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


CHINATOWN, SAN FRANCISCO, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oldtimers play pinball to quicken the heart
Last Line: You are a sight for sore eyes %I am in a state of reverie
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


CHINESE DENTIST, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: With your apartment
Last Line: Hoping to save a few dollars
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


CHINESE NEW YEAR, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: See me on sunday
Last Line: As we feast for three nights
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


CHINESE NEW YEAR. YELLOW CHRYSANTEMUMS, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Follow. Oranges to cut. Shrimp chips %flowering
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


CHINESE POEM, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Since we last saw one another
Last Line: To feast on a bowl of noodles
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


CHINESE WOMEN, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Old woman at the window
Last Line: I hope your reverie and view %do not leave you unhappy
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


CHOPSTICKS, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: A memory of ivory chopsticks
Last Line: Like a pair of ivory chopsticks
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


COCKROACH DREAM NIGHTMARE. BANGING, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Overturned on its back struggling. I %must reread metamorphosis
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


COUGH REMEDY, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: A loving gesture
Last Line: I was so tickled
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


CRADLE SONG FOR MIEKO, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dark-eyed baby
Last Line: A home in the country
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


DISCOVERY OF THE SECRET POWER TO, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Wired mobile. I don't think I %can read them
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN IT SEEMED THE WHOLE WORLD, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Eternal windowshoppers %we women are sometimes like children
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


DON'T LEAVE ANY RICE IN YOUR, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Needed to cook the rice with %index finger
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


DONDE SE VENDEN PAVOS, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Old woman from el salvador
Last Line: Warm smiles and always the parting %que le vaya bien
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


DOUBLE TEN (10/10 DAY), by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Early morning
Last Line: The strong smell of black mushrooms
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


DREAM COLLECTION, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: A man with dashiki lips
Last Line: Two peaches beneath a tree
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


EAST SIDE MOVING PICTURE THEATRE - SUNDAY, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An old woman rubs her eyes
Last Line: Were standing before their last heaven.
Subject(s): Heaven; Lower East Side, New York City; Motion Pictures; Prayer; Sabbath; Paradise; Movies; Cinema; Sunday


EATING ORANGES, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: An orange eaten the chinese way
Last Line: Picks one up %sucks on it
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


ECHOES OF THE NIGHT TRUCKS, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Brave cross mott street on a %diagonal
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


EN BUSCA DEL BARRIO CHINO DE LIMA..., by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Chan-chan, chunga...Chan chung
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


EVERY SUNDAY WE GO TO 'JEW STREET,' ORCHARD TOWN, TO, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Heads, one-armed, even one naked bride with no nipples
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


FLOWER LIFTS ON MOTT STREET, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: That sings a fresh song %every dawning
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


FOR A LION DANCER, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Beneath bright colors of a lion mask
Last Line: Strike a strong lion's pose for me %dance into my life
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


FOR LI PO, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: They read your poem still
Last Line: We remember your middle name
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


FOR MY GRANDFATHER'S FRIEND, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: They said you were a gambler
Last Line: I wonder are they flowering still
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


FOUND CHINESE POEM, 1944, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mango bird
Last Line: Sweet spirit of rice
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


FRUIT MUTATIONS, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Grape approaching lichee
Last Line: Peach approaching mango
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


GLOSSARY, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: A piece of rice--term applied to a lazy person
Last Line: Duck shit green--olive green
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


GOOFY LALA WAS THE WICKED WOMAN WHO LIVED ON ELIZABETH, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Away quickly because she threw bottles when she became %angry
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


GREAT AMERICAN YELLOW POEM, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: She heard tales about saving grapefruit skins for cooking
Last Line: Visions of ochre and citronella eluded her
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


GUATEMALA, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Two babies sitting in the doorway of the hotel
Last Line: The sign on one doorway %se venden tortillas
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


HALF A MAN, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: One cold christmas night
Last Line: You wouldn't be here %waiting for no damn bus
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


HARE KRISHNA PEOPLE COME, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Their shaven heads. They look %like pale white ghosts
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


HE CAME DOWN THE HALL WITH BLACKNESS IN HIS PUPILS,, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: You leave, he will ask you to bring toothpicks the next %time you come
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


HE WAS GROWING OLD, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: She wanted more
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


HE WEARS A UNIFORM OF RED AND BLACK, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Twenty years now. They are empty and %full of dust
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


HONG KONG, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Into the hallway
Last Line: While we drop coins %into her plate
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


I AM FRUIT CRAZY. I LOVE SIX, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Translucent skin. Spanish fruits %are feminine
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


I CALL HER THE TEA LADY (TO MYSELF) BECAUSE I, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Association. She seems imported
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


I DISCOVER THE OTHER WOMEN IN MY FAMILY. MY, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Limited to sentences like, 'I've just eaten half %an orange at grandma's.'
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


I HAVE VERY LITTLE, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: It grows and obeys me
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


I WENT TO SLEEP LAST NIGHT, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: To a pawnshop %one day
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


IF IT IS TRUE THAT YOU ARE WHAT YOU, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Discovery of a field of chrysanthemums %in a teapot
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


IN A CORNER OF THE SUBWAY DOOR DISCOVERED, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: And you in every tree
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


IN SEARCH OF CHINESE MADNESS, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Red and green doors
Last Line: Chinatown is open tonight
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


IT IS THE SAME WALK, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: For whom did you think it would change color?
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


IT WOULD HAVE BEEN NICE IF PEOPLE SAW HER AS SHE SAW, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Friends wrote from europe wishing her a happy %valentine's day
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


KALEIDOSCOPE, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Chinatown
Last Line: Tie a red bow around it
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


LOVE SONG, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: A young chinese scholar writes
Last Line: The garden of peonies in your dress %was it by the pearl river
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


LOVE'S CANOPY, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Can of peas
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


LOVERS, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Once loved a man downtown
Last Line: Loved me in an ancient way
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


LUNCHTIME AT THE FACTORY IS A FAMILY AFFAIR. MOTHER AND, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Replicas of your own dust-ridden window. Lunchtime is %suddenly over
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


MAGICIAN GROWING BEAN SPROUTS, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Looking for the right one
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


MAH-JONG PLAYERS, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Under the halo
Last Line: Circles birds flowers %swirling through the game
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


MANGO DID NOT KNOW WHAT SHE WANTED, NOT FROM THE, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Important. Afraid that she would lose her power to dream
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


MARRIAGE SIGNS, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Two incense sticks burn as one
Last Line: You drink the tea I pour for you
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


MEXICO, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: The smell of tortillas and cilantro
Last Line: Fresh smell of el campo %luciernagas
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


MIDDLE DAUGHTER, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: How soft it felt
Last Line: Who leaves home only to return again
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


MOSQUITO, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Love song %tonight
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


MOUNT TAMALPAIS, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: A picnic for all soothing times
Last Line: I read o book of poems in a wheatlike meadow
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


MOVIE THEATER FILLED WITH STICKY, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Apartments as eyes focus on a slightly %different world
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


MY ITALIAN GIRLFRIENDS DRESSED UP ON SUNDAYS IN DRESSES AND, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Our separate ways on sundays
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


NEON LIGHTS THAT WARM NO ONE. HOW LONG, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Stare as if under a pond. The %irony reeks
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


NIGHT LIGHT, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: On the coral night lamp
Last Line: Small beauty floods the room
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


NO ONE USES WORDS SUCH AS, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: 78 rpm chinese records
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


ODE TO A PATCHWORK QUILT, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hanging delicately on the wall
Last Line: The aura of times no longer
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


OF THREE MINDS, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Forest selva
Last Line: Bamboo bambu
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


OH LUCKY ME, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Chinese food was delicious?
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


ON NEW YEAR'S EVE WE THROW THE, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: The power of the great
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


ON SATURDAY, IT IS 14TH STREET FOR SHOPPING. CLOTHES AT A, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Your daughter on an uptown street
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


ONE BLACK BOY ON A CLASS TRIP, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Excitedly: hey, look at that %ninety year man!
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


ONE CHINESE APPLE, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Take small crimson bites
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


PACIFIC AVENUE, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Chinese voices fly up from the street
Last Line: Even the vegetables take on new forms
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


PHILODENDRON PLANTS. MONK'S FOOD AND, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Moved along canal street fascinates me
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


PIROPOS DE LA CHINITA, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mamita linda
Last Line: Corazon de melon
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


PLEASE DON'T TELL ME YOU'RE SORRY. DON'T BOTHER. THAT, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Door, leaving your shadow standing on the wall
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


POEM FOR AN INDIAN SCHOLAR, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: A friend sent me a book of asian love poems
Last Line: And write poems %I wonder is it that easy
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


PURPLE POEM, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Shades of lilac and lavender
Last Line: By the light of the full moon
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


RECUERDOS DE LA CHINITA EN GUATEMALA, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: The call of chinita
Last Line: Give away my chinese fan
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


REFERENCES TO YOUR HOME AS A GHETTO. ANCIENT, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Tenements. Sociological labels. A chinese %wonderland
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


RIDING THE SUBWAY IS AN ADVENTURE, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Pennies in the first pocket have disappeared, %she knows that she is home
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


SA GOW, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: In my father's village in china
Last Line: Posing for a proud portrait %in my father's village in china
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


SCENES GATHERED FROM A CHINESE-ENGLISH DICTIONARY, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Clouds clearing away
Last Line: My dull mind is suddenly opened
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


SITTING ACROSS FROM ME ON THE BUS A CHINESE, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: With the stage sometimes shifting to the %subway
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


SUMMER NIGHTS WE SPENT ON THE COOL STOOPS. WE WORE, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Between two chairs and it turned into a bazaar of %miscellaneous goodies
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


SURREALISTS ON EAST HOUSTON, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: A brick wall is painted in layers of piss and smells
Last Line: And wears a pin in the form of a palette %the surrealists dream of red sneakers
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


TAIWAN, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: The place where
Last Line: Became sun and %everything came true
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


THAT STIFF FIGURE THERE, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: And the tears they come
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


THAT ZEN TIME IN THE SNOW, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Everything is pleasant
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


THERE ARE MORE CHINESE BUMS, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: One of them looks like a poet
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


THERE IS A GROUP OF CHINESE-AMERICAN MEN WHO THINK OF, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Calligraphy, consult the ching and go to sword flicks to %blow their minds
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


THEY ARE SEEN IN DIFFERENT, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Saw a man waiting for a bus %tonight. Womanless
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


THEY DRESS ALIKE AND CUT THEIR BLACK HAIR INTO, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Get a permanent. They speak chinese sprinkled %with many english words
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


THEY MUST HAVE ME LEARN MY LESSONS OF VIOLENCE, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: No more pepperoni in the toilet bowls
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


THEY WANT ME TO SETTLE DOWN, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Whispers that I haven't seen peking
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


THIS CHINESE WARRIOR, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: And tells no one his name
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


THREE PEASANT DAUGHTERS, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: One wore glass bangles from canton
Last Line: One looked out over blue water %dreaming of falling stars
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


TULIPS, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: In crayon gardens
Last Line: Lamp tulip tree %tulips in bloom
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


VIET NAM, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Viet nam %bomb
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


WALKING ALONG THE BOWERY, CAN'T, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Of blind prostitutes in hong kong
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


WE ARE SAILING OFF, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: And a lovely drunkenness %washes over me
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


WE SPENT SUMMER AFTERNOONS CATCHING FLIES THAT HOVERED, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Spaghetti. Only now do I realize what the pink neon sign %read--wines
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


WE STOLE A SNAIL FROM THE OUTDOOR BASKETS IN FRONT OF THE, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Our fingers to see if it was home
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


WE USE NEWSPAPER FOR A, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Food when I am older
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


WEDDING, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wishes cover the red silk
Last Line: To make of the feast one nightblooming flower
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


WELCOME TO CHINATOWN LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Where happiness has resigned itself %to have tea every sunday afternoon
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


WHEN THE WATER IN THE POT IS, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Water is singing a song
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


WHERE IS THE COCKROACH WHO LEFT, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Its footprint on my bowl?
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


WINTER FESTIVAL, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Unearthing a new voice
Last Line: Our rice pot so full %its lid won't stay put
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


WINTER WIND SITS IN THE LIVING ROOM, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: What do we wear when we go outside?
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


YO VIVO EN EL BARRIO CHINO, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Times when chinatown is the %only place to live...
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


YOUNG MAN DRESSED IN WHITE IS A BARBER AT, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Smiles and walks away in the direction of the %men's room. You are on the way to lima
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City