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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…

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