Sunday, October 23, 2011

this is my grand-aunt and my cousins:
little fen, little bear, little red.
i met and played with little fen's daughter this summer.
little red's sons are my exact age; we talk about college.
i don't ever remember meeting little bear.

grand-aunt was forced to get her feet
bound when she was little but she was too stubborn and secretly
loosened them whenever people weren't around.
soon her feet grew too big to be controlled by other people.
this is my 2nd uncle & aunt
(little fen, red, bear's parents).
my aunt can sing the loveliest songs
in our authentic shenmu dialect.
i can't understand a word of it.
(no one can unless you are a native local of the town).

3 comments:

Leah said...

are these relatives from your mama's side or your papa's? i'm trying to guess and i keep changing my mind!

linda said...

m0m.

linda said...

but both sides of my family are from the same mountainside, just in nearby villages. so their families have known each other for the past few generations.