Poetry Archive
Here’s all my writing filed under Poetry.
Fool the Sky to Cross the Sea
The monarch butterfly seems happy on the butterfly bush. Purple flowers sway, seaweed in the breeze. # I am happy looking down on the monarch’s slowly beating wings. Not all…NEW LANDS
If these were snowflakes, mirages in the distance could be trapped inside a globe. Cities inside, brickscapes alive, malleable. Buildings are fluid - gasworks, cathedrals, neo-classical town halls. Sleepwalkers…Bright Star
Earth’s breath, expression of cicadas’ song a shoreless surf that rattles through the leaves and layers like a sea of living sound above the muted roaring of the falls. Bright…Samaras
For the sweet song of the one true surf. I hear insect wings, a nuthatch upside down on the dogwood, spinning maple helicopters, and the entrance of my thoughts. Give…Besiege Wei to Rescue Zhao
Forgive the closets containing the past: the table’s veneer peeling away; families whooping while they cook in their kitchen; kids encrusted before spraying TVs; roses who refuse to bloom forever;…all that goes unlisted
Oysters are a gift by mugwort in the reeds. Mass of shells, in each the succulence of being. Honeysuckle and beach rose. Leaves lifting chlorophylled faces to the sun. Discarded…