Chen-ou Liu Poems

A Haibun


like a newlywed standing by her wooden mailbox,
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American dream
in each shop window
a different moon
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one bird song
after another...
alone
in the waters of spring
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standing alone
under our Chinese pine
I remember you...
its trunk forks out
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snowy morning,
December 21...
reciting Basho
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'Madiba's gone'...
a young Mandela raised
his right fist
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grief knocks
the wind out of me
drifting snowflakes
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Father recited
Li Po's Quiet Night Thought...
I listen
to Heaney's river
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