Tag: driving

• Personal Statement (II)

  In continuation of what I was thinking and feeling earlier. For G. C.

  

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  June 7, 2024

  adjustment, America, Belgium, conversions, driving, Ghent, moving, New Jersey, observations, personal statement, Poetry, walking

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• A Drive to Princeton

  

  You ask me what life is like here in New 
  Jersey, so I drive you down to Princeton. 
  Of course, we don’t have to drive; there are trains 
  and buses in New Jersey, and there are
  other people who could drive us, too. But
  the trains are there to take you out of state, 
  and the buses are there to take you to
  corners you’d never recognize if you
  weren’t already living here. So a 
  drive with the car down to Princeton it is.
  

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  May 29, 2024

  childhood, driving, memory, New Jersey, Poetry, Princeton

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• America

  is the scent of summer rain rising from bright emerald grass

  the seared underside of pork-and-chive dumplings family-wrapped with flour-tipped fingers

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  April 28, 2024

  America, birds, culture, drink, driving, food, homecoming, identity, memory, Music, nervousness, nostalgia, Poetry, politics, race

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