This paper attempts to explore the limit of a returned gaze, a private realm where the inscription of Us and Other fails. Within that, the shifting planes of nostalgia and mourning are navigated in and through the clinical room between the client as Asian American and the clinician’s moving identity as Asian in America. Interposing lyric poetry with free verse prose, it mirrors the sliding reality of gripping and losing grip simultaneously, issuing a sense where belonging is fragmented. This form of writing is also utilized to reveal and obscure the experience of dislocation in the foreign, and how that discourse can be challenged through a reconfiguration of the body, time and desire as an immigrant living between worlds.