knife | fork | book, chapbook
Publication Date: May 19, 2026
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Along with 20,000 other Japanese Canadians, my grandparents and their families were incarcerated in a “relocation camp” in British Columbia during the Second World War. Their property and possessions were seized by the government and liquidated to pay for the construction and running of the camp. After the War, they were ordered to either move east of the Rockies or be deported to Japan; this order was rescinded in 1949. “Lines Written While Visiting the Valley Where the Camp Was” meditates on the former site of the largest relocation camp in British Columbia, Tashme, where my grandparents were held; it is now summer resort community called Sunshine Valley. “Broken Record” references the career of composer Takeshi Shindo. “Saba” is after Mackerel, Crab, and Morning Glory by Hiroshige Utagawa and Still Life with Mackerel by Anne Vallayer-Coster.
