Eileen Chong - My Mother Talks In Numbers
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speculumannorumWhat is home?
Forty years of morning, noon, and night.
Tell me about your childhood.
Thirty-seven mouths open under a tin roof.
What is happiness?
Eighteen in my sailor suit, spray from the waterfall—
Why did you marry?
Five years of coins.
How many tears?
One thousand, eight hundred, and ninety-eight pearls.
Do you love your mother?
Two hands, ten fingers, six children.
How many miles have you come?
Sixty-four thousand and twenty-five gull-wings.
Do you love me?
The rain falling, falling, over thirteen thousand dawns.
—
Meanjin
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Forty years of morning, noon, and night.
Tell me about your childhood.
Thirty-seven mouths open under a tin roof.
What is happiness?
Eighteen in my sailor suit, spray from the waterfall—
Why did you marry?
Five years of coins.
How many tears?
One thousand, eight hundred, and ninety-eight pearls.
Do you love your mother?
Two hands, ten fingers, six children.
How many miles have you come?
Sixty-four thousand and twenty-five gull-wings.
Do you love me?
The rain falling, falling, over thirteen thousand dawns.
—
Meanjin
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