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Chinese New Year in America
April 16, 2019
Your grandma hands you
the remnants
of what she could afford
to not spend on groceries,
in a red envelope.
You see the greenbacks
and pennies folded neatly
into its golden opening
as your mouth hangs agape.
You should probably thank her
but it has been so long
since you last spoke
your native tongue,
that no words fall out.
© Brooke W., Weston, MA
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This is a modern sonnet about my interaction with my grandma when she visited America on Chinese New Year for the first time in several years.