narrow Han River rounds rocks briskly
tumbles through the corkscrew
passes the Taoist temple on the western shore
then finds open relief through boulder gates
...
there is a secret
the dumb and lost must share
being born gives you no right
to being here
...
the river so low fish cannot swim
egret flocks to the fields instead
a man can ford with dry pants
and see mossy spots to avoid the dance
...
the family gathers over the rainbow of Taiwan
high above the yellow horde proletariat of Hualien
...
visiting a friend as the mind travels
looking into his eyes
...
Angela Joli is pretty,
with or without mastectomy,
whether or not she's reconstructive
Lets no cloud come down destructive.
...
Japan's Taiwan in 1932
high school baseball playoff final
colonized inclusion
...
lily butterflies, i will not forsake you
though some may think queer my adulation
perhaps they'd take solace my welcoming them
when once i would spit in their horrid faces
...
Narrow Han River Round Rocks Briskly
narrow Han River rounds rocks briskly
tumbles through the corkscrew
passes the Taoist temple on the western shore
then finds open relief through boulder gates
to wide doldrums in calm resting places
pond-like glassy pool quiet
egret wading
sandy lines along the shore peaceful shore
a tiny beach for sun-bathed napping, resting
quenching pack of Taiwanese dogs
downstream winds deeper and steeper
becomes a narrow rapids squeezing
against a concrete embankment squeezing
bottom tier of two leaking waterfalls
adding to the Han under steel floodgates
floodgates abused by factory suds flushed
enters reality
and wrong-way scooters on bike paths
superimposed on cataract mountain views
suffers behind messy streets
of fabricated corrugated warehouses
littering the corridor between river and mountain
from Feng-Yuan to Tan-Zih
hillside mausoleums of death
urn living pitilessly
obstructing nature's beauty