Joan Xie Poems

You certainly don't need to remember my smile,
often I don't smile, nor do you need
to remember my tears
for I'd never cried in front of people
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He glances at me in the mirror
razor-sharped his glance in the back mirror

He who sees me knew the naked me
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Water, you flow
with one oxygen two hydrogen
Up, to the peak of my thoughts, the tip
of my tongue, you flow, for the sake of flow,
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Come, my child
Lay your weary head on my lap
Let the longing overtake you
As you enter the menopause.
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The time will come.
When with sudden revelation,
You will write an apology letter to each of by-gone lovers
At your great moment of epiphany
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I text-messaged him
come collect me

He did not come
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Moving man refuses to move
my orange tree.

I'm willing to pay more money
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Mother is a tree
dark and luminous
when summer arrives
all the birds fly to her, sing to her
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I often wonder how to catch a dream,
Sitting Bull knows, Usain Bolt knows, they all seem to know.
High hang the hoops trimmed by smoked leather,
Those flowing feathers, from eagles and crows,
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February silence
A dead kind of silence.

In a deserted parking lot, blizzard just passed.
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