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Priscilla Lee

Asian-American Literature

Spring 1995

Prayers to Buddha

By Priscilla Lee

You are the sun that rises above water the jade buried in stone a woman who gives birth to sons My grandmother reads from the almanac of life tucked under […]

Asian-American Literature

Spring 1995

Midwife

By Priscilla Lee

Sunday night in the living room my grandmother reads The Chinese Times with a cracked magnifying glass and one lamp. She does this every Sunday when my mother and the […]