Today my friend Bobby Salcedo would have turned 36-years-old. His memory always reminds me that anything is possible and that life is amazing and shouldn’t be taken for granted. I recently wrote him a poem that will appear in my upcoming chapbook Digital Divide. There’s something about his Facebook picture that has always resonated with
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The Dreams that Confront Our Hearts By Charity C. Tran To Martin Luther King Jr. When I think of you I think of dreams Not the fanciful kind Where our minds might wander Through the day Of instantaneous wealth Of peace of mind on Foreign beaches That takes us to a foreign place Away from
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A co-worker sent me this New York Magazine article Pvt. Danny Chen, 1992-2011 which moved me to write this poem. Pvt. Chen was 19-years-old when he committed suicide after terrible hazing and racism. It is sad when lives are cut short, especially under such means. An Invisible Handshake by Charity C. Tran a poem for
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