Jenny Posted Pictures of Her Son in An Ice Hockey Game

All the young boys
swing their hockey sticks
on the ice,
as they
chase,
dodge,
bump
as if they each have
a sword in hand.

I showed to my husband:
Why don’t we
let Edgar learn it, too?
It’s so cool!!

Don’t you see how strong they are?

That’s not for Asians.

Kuo Zhang is a faculty member at Western Colorado University. She has a bilingual book of poetry in Chinese and English, Broadleaves (Shenyang Press). Her poem “One Child Policy” was awarded second place in the 2012 Society for Humanistic Anthropology [SHA] Poetry Competition held by the American Anthropology Association. She served as poetry & arts editor for the Journal of Language & Literacy Education in 2016-2017 and also one of the judges for 2015 & 2016 SHA Poetry Competition. Her poems have appeared in numerous literary magazines, including Gyroscope Review, Coffin Bell Journal, The Roadrunner Review, Lily Poetry Review, Mom Egg Review, Bone Bouquet, K’in, North Dakota Quarterly, Rigorous, Adanna Literary Journal, Raising Mothers, and MUTHA Magazine.