Chen-ou Liu Poems

A Tanka prose


In dim light, I half listen to myself singing "Are you Lonesome Tonight? " on YouTube, hour after hour...
...

night news on mute...
I look out at the stars
breathe in
the silence of a world
...

hometown memories...
a spider mending a hole
in the attic wall
...

written on Canada Day for new Canadians

breezy sunlight
floods the ceremony room
...

Ninety-Seventh Entry, Coronavirus Poetry Diary

possessed
by viral demons for weeks
...