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  • Anecdote of Kimchi in Appalachia
  • Leah K. Hampton

She buried in the back yard her jar of cabbage,full of spices and red streaks of family code,and thought longingly of Kyeongsang. Monthspassed. Bittersweet sprawled quietly,the children went to school, spoke more loudlyin mingled phrases she only half discerned, grewfond of fishing the ponds and the Tuckasegee.

And what it would become, and whether it wouldbe to her taste, she forgot. The soils of the countyworked, seeping flavor into the white leaves.Or perhaps the seal cracked, leeching immigrantginger and hairtails into the fragrant, unfamiliar dirt.Come autumn,she will unearth her foreign capsule, and determinewhere and with whom the dominion falls. [End Page 106]

Leah K. Hampton
Cullowhee, North Carolina
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