the 15th tanka in the sequence about diasporic experiences
their coarse voices
Wow! Chinaman s-peak-s En-gli-sh
amplified
by a room of silence
... my Bruce Lee kick in the air
Atlas Poetica, 15, 2013
A Room of My Own: The Last Year of My Father's Life
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A haiku sequence for my father who was born in mainland China, lived most
of his adult life in Taiwan, died and was buried there in 2022
a slice of my lif...
