Poem of the Week | September 06, 2017

Andy Sia: “At age 10, I get a bad haircut”
This week, we are proud to present a new poem by Andy Sia. Sia is a Bruneian poet of Chinese descent. His poetry has been published or is forthcoming in Colorado Review and Meridian. He recently earned his BA from Colgate University.
At age 10, I get a bad haircut
Author’s Note:
For reasons I don’t fully understand yet, I ruminate over my childhood quite a bit. Mostly my memory is hazy, but the few instances I do recollect are sharp and alive. For someone who turns to the past so often, these remembered instances—however vivid—are frustratingly sparse in quantity and, because of that perhaps, seem to take on great symbolic weight.
“At age 10, I get a bad haircut” is my way of abandoning caution for once and saying: yes, there is meaning and, yes, there is unimaginable depth in this relentlessly mundane scene that keeps replaying in my mind. Whether true or not, I felt an immense sense of release after writing the poem.
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