Chen-ou Liu Poems

Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, ... Rudyard Kipling, opening line of 'The Ballad of East and West, ' 1889


a flurry of white
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my dog and I
under the eaves
moonlight dripping
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his word gentile
stuck in my throat
snow on snow
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one bird song
after another...
alone
in the waters of spring
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snowy morning,
December 21...
reciting Basho
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standing alone
under our Chinese pine
I remember you...
its trunk forks out
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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
...