Amy Uyematsu (1947–2023) was born in Pasadena and majored in mathematics at UCLA. Her first poetry collection, 30 Miles from J-Town, received the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize. She published several other collections, including That Blue Trickster Time (What Books, 2022), Stone Bow Prayer, and The Yellow Door. Active in the development of Asian American studies at UCLA, Uyematsu coedited the widely used anthology Roots: An Asian American Reader.

This Hand

An iPoem

by Amy Uyematsu

whose sixty-one-year-old veins
look like giant roots
breaking through earth’s skin.

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