Poetry in the Moment

morning coffee darkened the way a colleague mimics my English Hauling the Tide: HSA's 2024 Members' Anthology

Mother once sighed, you've spoken English for too long you might forget me ... exiled for years, I can't recall which language I dre...

the jagged edges of her parting words in perfect English gash my immigrant heart ... her face white as the snow moon Fireflies' Light, A...

in dim lamplight my wife murmurs, "I'm scared of not knowing you: you never sleep talk in English you only dream in Chinese" t...

the departure door closed between mother and me ... fifteen years later surging waves, one continent and English separate us Cold Moon Journ...

When my father's coworker drove him to the ER with back pain, the doctor sent him home with an adhesive heat patch. Weeks later, he felt...

crows caw-caw-caw in the front yard maple ... ten years of my tongue acclimating to the way my white neighbor speaks English NeverEnding Sto...

sitting across from my blonde tutor with a dimpled smile I undress English layer by layer Atlas Poetica, 23, 2015

Oh, you write in English . . . his “oh “ tasting like pinot noir left open overnight Atlas Poetica, 22, 2015

my Chinese world confined in an attic with English words I excavate the interior world of nostalgia Poetry Nook, 6, April 2014

like a coolie laboring in English wordmines for seven years... the scars in his mind the hole in his heart NeverEnding Story, Feb. 5, 2014

for my ESL teacher, Sylvia first English lesson Iamyouareandheis The Mustard Grain, 1:1, August, 2014

I paint a daisy on the wall and sign it with my Romanized name ... morning mist rising To write verse in English is not like gr...

like a coolie laboring in English wordmines for seven years... the scars in his mind the hole in his heart for 劉鎮歐 who has lost his Ch...

im-mi-grant . . . the way English tastes on my tongue 2nd Prize, 7th Kokako Haiku Competition Included in Kumamoto University's t...

the 8th tanka in the sequence about diasporic experiences my English words nothing's wrong, I'm fine slip into our phone conversat...

the first tanka in the sequence about diasporic experiences a new immigrant in the land of Snow White I practice A,B,C... by talking to th...

ESL class: the Chinese have oral sex with some consonants New Bones: Selected Gendai Haiku Note: ESL stands for English as a Second La...

I used to be ... from an immigrant's mouth stretches his story -- the pin-drop silence fills an ESL classroom (Note: ESL stands for Eng...

Below is an excerpt from Owen Bullock's review essay, entitled On Contemporary Haibun 13 and published in Haibun Today, 6:3, September...