Jeffrey Yang Poems

of Azamor
at the mouth of the Oum er Rbia River
Province, Doukkala
Dorantes's slave, with Captain Castillo
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Bouteloua black
grama grass red
chino side-
oats blue grama grass
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or is true as
Happiness

Birth
A pure river
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How easy it is to lose oneself
in a kelp forest. Between
canopy leaves, sunlight filters thru
the water surface; nutrients
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Abalone Rumsen aulón
Aristotle auriform Costanoans
cultivated, Brueghel painted,
awabi Osahi dove for
on September 12, 425 A. D.
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Aristotle thought eels
"the entrails of the earth."
If "eels" were replaced with
"politicians" this image
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Eels are slimy creatures.
But never lie. If they sense
the slightest pretence, they'll
bite off your finger. Carefully
study the hands of politicians.
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Manatee Carib manati
mammary, Olmec sanctuary,
Guiana girl's grief morphed
watercow (what terrors unleashed
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One feels a sainte-terrer walking
the starfish shore. The soul
delighteth in decussate symmetry
dwells quincuncially. Without a word
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Occasionally a crab tires of its slant-
wise ways and stowaways
on the bell of a jellyfish. The bell
pulsates as the jellyfish drifts, drifts
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