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Aloha
Allow me to introduce you to the / Land of rainbows, the land / Of palm trees and flowers, all
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再见 - (to meet again)
You enticed me at first / With mystery and promises of adventure. / I entered your world,
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The Year of the Rat
Flowers float and flow in February forever / And a day too long and far away so / Take the train to September and stay a while this time.
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Girl - a story
It was early in my first semester teaching in a Chinese high school, / (also my first semester teaching, ever). As a new and inexperienced / teacher I was feeling kind of useless. The fact that the ‘foreign
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Wait For Spring
An avalanche of pain. Sudden. Heavy. / Suffocating in the frozenness. / Icicles fall from your mouth,
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Changes on the Wind
You're so far away, / And the space between us widens, / But the despair and pain in my heart
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Night Prayer
Stay with me God: the night is dark, / The night is cold; my little spark / Of courage dies. The night is long.
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What is poetry?
What is poetry but a moment / Captured in a stanza, / A breath strung rhythmically
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Autumn Haiku
Water on stone steps / Leading the way to autumn / Frozen in mid stride
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Ode to My Body
My body, my body, / Why have I forsaken thee? / Thou who carried me here,
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