Poetry

Five Poems from Girls Are Coming Out of the Wood

Tishani Doshi

by Tishani Doshi GIRLS ARE COMING OUT OF THE WOODS ………..for Monika Girls are coming out of the woods, wrapped in cloaks and hoods, carrying iron bars and candles andContinue readingFive Poems from Girls Are Coming Out of the Wood

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Paper Tiger

Eileen Chong

by Eileen Chong 画虎画皮难画骨，知人知面不知心。 When you draw a tiger, you draw its skin, but not its bones. When you know a person, you know their face, but not their heart.Continue readingPaper Tiger

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A Fatherless Son: A Sequence

Michael Shiaw-Tian Liaw

by Michael Shiaw-Tian Liaw A FATHERLESS SON #1 ….. after Sylvia Plath’s For a Fatherless Son One day, I touched what was wrong, an absence, a trout in a frozen writhe, stiffContinue readingA Fatherless Son: A Sequence

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Macao, 1997: Land of the Lotus Eaters

Gail Tirone

by Gail Tirone The faces of two young Portuguese girls innocent as something out of another century innocence on a park bench in Macao city of colonial elegance in decayContinue readingMacao, 1997: Land of the Lotus Eaters

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Divinations on Survival

Natalie Linh Bolderston

by Natalie Linh Bolderston Author’s Note: This poem uses a form invented by Kristin Chang, called the I-Ching. This is named after a Chinese method of divination. Each stanza takesContinue readingDivinations on Survival

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Merienda

Paolo Tiausas

by Paolo Tiausas A scattering of dumplings on a major road, my mother says, what a waste, and I think what a painful experience—the delivery boy in the story, IContinue readingMerienda

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Notes

Antony Huen

by Antony Huen 1 . Leaves are green, rocks brown, the gold-backed metropolis orange; but a performer playing coy and the other eyeing her red, and a familyContinue readingNotes

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The Guide

Donald Berger

by Donald Berger So I asked the guide how did you become a guide and he said, I had to learn to walk with pants and shoes, so the first one I watched who was wearingContinue readingThe Guide

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Life We Can No Longer See

Maureen Tai

by Maureen Tai Yeh Yeh loses the use of his legs when I turn twelve. Two years later, he loses the use of his eyes. Overnight, my grandfather has becomeContinue readingLife We Can No Longer See

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Two Poems

Dean A. F. Gui

by Dean A. F. Gui SHANGHAI ……for Cissy Mary Law Noodt, my grandmother In the year of the earth Snake, on a moist Hong Kong morning, I nosed through aContinue readingTwo Poems

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Three Poems

Iain Twiddy

by Iain Twiddy TUCKED FLIES On the tenth floor, the night further below, the wind like a wasp nest invaded, sliding the window across—like a pane of ice— I findContinue readingThree Poems

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The Best Day Of Our Life

Jose Manuel Sevilla

by Jose Manuel Sevilla Again we filled up an apartment, again stepped on new sidewalks quiet like horses that we would have to tame. Again we began, stubborn, insolent likeContinue readingThe Best Day Of Our Life

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