📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY

Notes on Forgetting

Never take anything for granted: the inner flame despite the wind; unquiet hearts in the plaza; the breathable air in the streets. On this any other day, this city feels so old but new, feeling its wounds as it walks, sheds rain-like tears for what it knows, learns a language of nostalgia. Close your eyes and think of the small bodies lurking in the shadows, bodies that are becoming new roads, new bridges. Bodies of history. Make your memory a safe country for truth, and on this day that is just another day, build your dream of tomorrow from the remembrances of sad things past.

How to cite: Wong, Jennifer. “Just Another Day: Jennifer Wong.” Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, 4 Jun. 2023, chajournal.blog/2023/06/04/jennifer-day.

Jennifer Wong was born and grew up in Hong Kong. She is the author of Letters Home (Nine Arches Press) and Identity, Home and Writing Elsewhere in Contemporary Chinese Diaspora Poetry (Bloomsbury Academic, 2023). She has a PhD in creative writing from Oxford Brookes University and currently lives in the UK. [Jennifer Wong and chajournal.blog.]

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