Stella Wong

Nyquist Sampling

Who remembers the tea
of linden flowers out of Proust

with discrete fidelity?
The x’s wedded and not the y.

The negative sine that must
be recorded

along with the sine.
From Swedish street trees

and your childhood,
your mother drinks

Little-Leaf
and flowers.

She doesn’t recall
the blossoms’

names. Not in the language
you speak now.