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Chen-ou Liu


Selected Haiku and Tanka...



Zen garden...
retracing my footsteps
to No Exit


the Pacific
divides our life, our world …
mother and I
see different moons
in the winter sky


Virgin of the Milk...
she touches her right breast
where the lump came out


she whispered
I am in love and love
what vanished...
my thoughts of her floating
in the dark sea of night


his last note reads
a great weight placed
upon my mind...
shards of glass
in a pool of moonlight


sunset glow
behind black-robed nuns
a homeless girl


we were all
someone and something once ...
this migrant
sees himself in me
seeing myself in him


alone with my dog
among narcissus flowers...
the night I proposed 
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mother and I
under the harvest moon
an ocean apart


once again
an egg misses
my head
Chink! Chink! dents
my moonlit shadow


this strange face
in the bathroom mirror...
she and I
just seventeen when we saw
our faces in Sun Moon Lake

winter solstice...
picking up myself
piece by piece

my allusion
falls between the lines
of his review
winter sunlight reflected
from the critic's glasses
he slashes
the shifting shadow
on the wall
below his attic room
an alley dog barking
a shooting star
streaking across the sky
loneliness
sneaks into my room
and mounts on my body
flies buzzing...
a one-man funeral
in my head
bonfire gathering:
the Chinese girl with no bra
turns her shoulder,
Let the waterfall
swallow their gossip
for weeks
I've had the same dream:
the scent
of bamboo leaves
in the rustling dark
the weight of her name...
on a blade of plum grass
morning frost
all men
are created equal
a black teen stares
at the Declaration
under bulletproof

dots of light
across his radar screen
winter stars

on the way
to the Zen Center
dog dung
I accept it
and everything else

election rally
around a banana
summer flies

the cold moon
in a corner of the window:
three generations
in a one-bedroom apartment
pass around the pumpkin pie
my muse listens
to the hum and strike
of my words...
that same old look
on her Tudor court face

tenth winter...
my dog and I walk
the full moon home

holding my book
in the crook of her arm
she smiles at me
the spring sun heaps
rubies on the day's shroud

cherry petals
on the Laughing Buddha
bird droppings
her words hit
hammer-hard
spring drizzle

our faces reflected
in The Virgin of the Milk...
has she imagined
a child clamping
onto her breast at 3 am?

I feel lonely
with her hand down my pants
Valentine's Eve

wedding morning...
I wake from a dream
of entering
this pool that contains
a giant black octopus

which kigo to use?
I glance at the day moon
gazing at me

autumn rain . . .
counting my footsteps
on the long trip home

once again
I rip my paper
to pieces --
on a moonlit night
the words dancing in my mind

moonlit spider web
in a corner of my room
map of Venice

waning winter moon
the smell of lovemaking
lingers
this ink dark night...
nostalgia and loneliness
circle me
two predators waiting
for my weak moment

nostalgia
is a many-mouthed bird
all winter long
singing, Please let me haunt
as scent on your pillow

sickle moon
rubber copies of Van Gogh's ear
scattered on the ground

Moon Festival
sharing imported mooncakes
with my old dog

a prom dress
in my wife’s closet
winter moon

autumn twilight…
dueling with my shadow
once again

like pastry dough
the fingers of my mind
work through
hometown memories --
lingering scent of mooncakes

our last talk
full of might haves, could haves,
should haves...
snowflakes drifting
on this starless night
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