Chen-ou Liu Poems

a foreclosed house
with the open door
autumn mist
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At 11, Malala Yousafzai took on the Taliban by championing female education; at 13, she has blogged for the BBC, drawing the world's attention to the plight and cause of the people of Swat Valley. Yesterday, the Taliban answered this 14-year-old girl's courage with bullets, shooting her in the head and neck.


Swat Valley
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written one day after Red Dress Day

another
indigenous girl missing...
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autumn mist
a Bach fugue played
on the saw
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veggie dumplings...
I wrap myself
in her scent
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Moon Festival
alone, I whisper to myself
in my mother tongue
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suddenly awake
to see a sharp sickle
hanging low
in the winter sky...
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like a lullaby
crickets chirping from afar
take me home
in my autumn dream
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'dust to dust'...
a grasshopper clutching
a lump of earth
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For Ai Weiwei, author of Study of Perspective

sunlight on the photo:
his middle finger
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