Chen-ou Liu Poems

thirteen crows
on a telephone wire
garden wedding
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A Haibun


like a newlywed standing by her wooden mailbox,
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thick moss
coats the roof of my house
foggy memories
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American dream
in each shop window
a different moon
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A Haibun


The fireman from Nuevo Laredo looks at the body, muttering, “This is the 6ooth body I’ve pulled out of the Rio Grande.” There is noisy silence between the two of us as I turn and see a long line of trucks crossing into Texas. We continue to make our way downriver and, upon turning a bend, I see a boy and his dog caught in branches at the river’s edge.
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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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