(Thinking of you while I sit on the balcony of Faneuil Hall filled with the cacophony of tongues accented in so many rhythms glazed with the great expectation of… dreams.)
J.J. sits on a pew, hands folded across his chest, muffling perhaps the beat of Bharat.
And I—a Himali witness to our Hindustani Jason about to duly tradein his native shawl fora Yankee fleece—survey the faceof the people.
The official roll call begins: Tran Van Joo, Soo Young Long, Wilder Pinash, Danielle Doming, Patrick John Dorvan, Tony Fong Tan, Jean Goo Yu, Soo Fan Yon, Angela Marion Nickelson, Star Inez Dealer…
Five White ladies, holding five certificates each, march toward the people soon to be anointed politically, standing to receive the gift of prized laminated proof of their new beginning, proof of their new life in the New World…