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January 15th, 2026
by Dana Choi
as a child, you seemed immovable a titan of immutable will stone-faced to my infant tantrums and unrelenting in your rigidity but two decades have come and gone and my anger has whittled away at you carved wrinkles into your skin plucked hairs from your head you are silent – is your voice gone, too? was it also my fault? would you tell me if it was?
About the Poet
Dana Choi resides in Albertson, New York, United States.
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Young Poets Collection
This poem is also featured in
Young Poets Collection #1,
published in the Young Poets World Library.
Keywords: parenthood, aging, familiar love
Previously published in Young Poets 16 to 18:
Letters I Never Sent
by Ekanem Winifred
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