By Annie Wong
Ma makes a home in an echo
With traces from a phantasmagorical palace
Shanghai // Saigon
Toronto // Chinatown
doubly displaced mama murmur
buried under manual labour
piecework pay
factory dust
Foreign snow
Forgotten borders
Only ghost travel
I once saw the trace of
An ancient cheongsam wrapped in sepia and silence
Under your bed
Where did this come from?
When did you wear this?
Was it nice on, ma?
mama // murmur:
past is the past is the past is the past
Annie Wong is a multidisciplinary artist and writer based in Toronto, ON.