TAMMY WARTELL - POEM

Tammy Wartell is a 1998 graduate of Hawaii Pacific Magazine . Her work has been featured in Boating Times, Mysterious Ways , Nexgenmilspouse , eskimopi , Military Spouse , Bumples Buds, and several online e magazines 

Dawn in a foreign place is sinister
The unknown abounds
Riding the junks in Hong Kong 
Unsteady
Not speaking the language
and cursing because they put fish sauce on your scrambled eggs 
Again
The wayward tailors who want to measure you up and down and tailor you
for a tall price
but the shoes don’t fit because Americans have big feet
British accents speaking in muted tones
Riding the bus with other Americans quite not giving your reasons for being here away 
Hong Kong 2001