Chen-ou Liu Poems

first glimpse
of her mastectomy bra
winter rose
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a pair of corresponsive tanka written in response to Albert Camus's remark:

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide - 'An Absurd Reasoning'
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There are literally two Americas. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.


a flurry of white...
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I protest
with my mouth taped:
don't stain my poems
'Blueline and Red Thread'
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the drunk
on top of his wife
as she screams
then becomes silent...
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a senate claims
women can block rape sperm
with willpower!
throughout the night, I hear
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A Gendai Haiku Sequence


'Houston,
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she whispers,
'I'm good at intimacy
with strangers...'
I see the light go out
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buried earth
a silver carpet -
maples and I
gaze at the barrenness
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