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Refugee Girl
- Carina Kimlan Hinton
- Jul 9
- 1 min read
pinnacle of the american dream
cleaning homes
to PhD
aged beyond years of youth
a child; a mother
baby bottle
siblings swaddled
below poverty line
leaky roof
with the rain
collecting in pails
battle scars
of the mind
shell-shocked
refugee girl
long black hair
pale skin
like ivory
holding years
in her eyes
refugee girl
sad smile
refugee girl.
Carina Kimlan Hinton is a mixed race, Vietnamese American poet /writer who explores issues of identity, cultural belonging and intergenerational trauma. You can find her work in the following publications: DiaCRITICS (Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network), Real Soul (and here), Project Yellow Dress (here and here), Vietnamese Boat People (and here) Watercress Literary Journal (here and here) and the UC Berkeley Literature and Arts Magazine. She was a finalist for the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) Digital Storytelling Contest.