The Ngak family was the first to arrive to America. They left Thailand in 1978 and was relocated to Davis, Calif., where their sponsors lived. After months of sending hundreds of letters to families and friends in Cambodia, they successfully found the whereabouts of the rest of the Buth family in Thailand. Separated for one full year, the family was finally reunited in Davis, Calif. 
A NEW DAY.
How would you know of the mornings
I spent watching fresh rain
Absorbed by the cracking wood?
Did I ever tell you about the days
Dying into night?
The sky ringing sympathy
Humming the song you never wrote for me
Four white walls breathing your name
Me, crying to the moon
out of my third floor window
And you in love with the idea of women
As long as it wasnt
Me, at the market alone
No longer contemplating apples or bananas
I switched to peaches
My voice
Reminiscent of saliva
Sour with regret
Ears textured
Tormented ellipses
Tomorrow Ill wake up
Missing the smell of your sweat
Tonight Ill dream of the day
I wont remember your favorite
Beatles song.
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