Catalog of Writings Left by Chinese Railroad Laborers of the CPRR and “唔需(No Need)”
- Catalog of Writings Left by Chinese Railroad Laborers of the CPRR and “唔需(No Need)”
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唔需the not necessary, not needed, unrequired andunrequited missing of your voice, your knotty handnot near enough to mine, please pass the 清蒸魚,no need to worry, no need, please pass back [End Page 523] into this kitchen, this house, this lifethat you left, don’t bother, don’t worry about it,we say, you said, I sayto no one, I don’t need it, I’m not hungry, butI am always hungry, I do so needyou, and so much more [End Page 524]
Caroline M. Mar is the great-granddaughter of a railroad laborer and the author of Water Guest (forthcoming), Special Education (Texas Review Press), and the chapbook Dream of the Lake (Bull City Press). Carrie received her MFA from Warren Wilson, is a member of Rabble Collective, and teaches high school health education in her hometown of San Francisco. She has been granted residencies at Hedgebrook, Ragdale, and Storyknife, among others, and her writing has most recently appeared in West Trade Review and Poetry Northwest.
