things that remind me of you
hot pot, half spicy, half not
& little pastries, crispy, flaky with a strawberry on top
& cookies & chocolate & green tea, cold brewed, prepared last night
& noodles, dried & chaoshou, dried
& fruit juice, iced, too hard to be chiseled away with a plastic spoon
& lotus seeds, too tough to be picked open by nails bitten to the quick
& rice, the most common staple, the staple of life
& it’s always food—
because we grew up greeting each
other with ‘have you eaten?’ / because sometimes, I think you love me
more than I love myself / because it’s the mundane things that we
forget, that show we care
Fefe is a 23-year-old Chinese-American currently residing in Beijing. Find her on Twitter at @fefedove.
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