By TEOW LIM GOH
Ten miles of concrete can bring you
to different places. Your feet carry you
across the ground, let you
into worlds unlike your own. You go places
you have never been. But what matters
is not where you have been
but what you see. What you choose
to see. Whether you let yourself
see the distance
between what is and what you want to be.
Teow Lim Goh is the author of Islanders, a volume of poems on the history of Chinese exclusion at the Angel Island Immigration Station. Her work has been featured in Tin House, Catapult, PBS NewsHour, Colorado Public Radio, and The New Yorker. She lives in Denver.
