My Chinatown: One Year in Poems

Chinatown — a place of dragons
and dreams; fireflies
and memories

Chinatown — full of wonder
and magic; fireworks
on New Year's Day and a delicious
smell on every corner

Chinatown — where every day
brings something familiar
and something wondrously new
to a small boy

Chinatown — home?

Kam Mak grew up in a place of two cultures, one existing within the other. Using extraordinarily beautiful paintings and moving poems, he shares a year of growing up in this small city within a city, which is called Chinatown.