Jennifer Wong

Born and grew up in Hong Kong, Jennifer Wong is the author of Goldfish (Chameleon Press), a pamphlet, Diary of a Miu Miu Salesgirl (Bitter Melon Poetry 2019) and 回家 Letters Home (Nine Arches Press 2020)

Connect with Jennifer: Twitter @ jennywcreative jenniferwong.co.uk

Por por, 2022

In my mind I’d carry you, because you have tiny feet. Bring you to try the tastiest dumplings, share soup-spilling memories, and laugh at the way Alex holds his chopsticks. You’d meet his family, and they’d welcome you with their homemade chorizo and preto feijão dishes, and teach you how to say obrigada and maluco. I’d carry you to see Big Ben, turn the clock backwards like Mary Poppins surely can, all the time your frail body regaining strength, as we take a ride in an ombre-pink, sheepskin-soft rickshaw to cross the Thames, feeling triply young, singing Jasmine Flower all the time in the river breeze.