Chen-ou Liu, CA

 

 

Haiku   with a click through classmate finder: five impostors of you     the wolf moon caught in the tree… prison cars pass by     crowded bus when the coughing ceases two men stay     harvest moon… walking with my shadow     Taiwan’s moon hangs in Ajax sky...the scent on mother's apron     a long sigh... these low clouds unmoving     he gazes at her finger pointing to the moon— wedding ring     a moonlit pond takes what it sees: a frog croaks     enter a dream Chuang Tzu’s butterfly dreaming of me     among the white moon faces our slanted eyes     folded paper morphs into a bird and flies away     in the blizzard a maple tree barks at the quarter moon     Haiku Sequence   The Years of Living Dangerously   spring 1975... sleep in Saigon but wake up in Houston summer palace of the Fertile Crescent— Green Zone autumn leaves bounce and swirl in the air... echoes of Miss Saigon shooting stars cross the Kabul sky— the wolf moon