Chen-ou Liu Poems

a tanka prose for George Grant, author of a Canadian classic, "Lament for a Nation"

"Has the 'Trump effect' spilled over the border to Canada? " Today's headline makes me wonder if the editor tries to shelter his smugness behind this rhetorical question. The front page story reminds me of an Ontario judge who wore a "Make America Great Again" ball cap to court the day after the U.S. election. I put down the paper and look out the window.
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first sunshine
after slow recovery
from the flu
I take a morning walk
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lying back
in the steam
of a hot spring
the widow
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loneliness
runs through my body
like the thread
through Mother's needle -
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one month dead
"I'm not home right now..."
the message still speaks
to her empty room
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