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A house unrefined
Tears shed for a house come down / For the lives lived / The loves
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Oct 28, 2019
Aloha
Allow me to introduce you to the / Land of rainbows, the land / Of palm trees and flowers, all
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Feb 25, 2016
Autumn Haiku
Water on stone steps / Leading the way to autumn / Frozen in mid stride
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Mar 17, 2016
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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Jun 17, 2012
Christmas Haiku
The tree fell over, / Ornaments smashed, broken, torn / But the star remains
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Dec 20, 2020
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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Aug 7, 2010
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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Nov 11, 2013
Ode to My Body
My body, my body, / Why have I forsaken thee? / Thou who carried me here,
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Nov 19, 2020
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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Aug 2, 2010
Wait For Spring
An avalanche of pain. Sudden. Heavy. / Suffocating in the frozenness. / Icicles fall from your mouth,
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Nov 12, 2013
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