Chen-ou Liu's Translation Project: First English-Chinese Haiku and Tanka Blog

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

An Immigrant in the Promised Land

I confess my sins. There are things I can never do away with: my accented English, my yellow skin, and my graying hair. But I vow to do the following things today: slice time into moments, chop off hometown memories, and swallow Oxford Practice Grammar page by page.

alone
I hang on the cross
dead
to each passing day --
be born again… as usual