I write her
one poem every day
spring dewdrops
a butterfly
tattooed on her buttock
summer heat
autumn dawn
before the mirror I count
gray hairs
snow on snow
thoughts of her emerge
one at a time
Frogpond, 34:1, winter 2011
Poetic Musings: (M)otherland Tanka by Chen-ou Liu
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years in exile ...
moonlight rippling
the Pacific,
this narrow path
to the (M)otherland
First Place, Tanka, 2024 San Francisco International Competition
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