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Startled. (A poem about Hong Kong)
Back from Hong Kong, where you can now find We Met in Beijing at Bookazine. As part of the Hong Kong Literary Festival last week, I partook in a photography city walk with Joyce Yung, author of Hong Kong in 100 Photos, and was inspired to write the following poem. Hong Kong is a city full of lines—crisscrossing, overlapping, parallel, etc.—so I tried playing around with linebreaks and enjambment, with the help of the underutilized and possibly underrated Courier New font.
