Poetry in the Moment

Based on the principles of progression and association employed in Japanese court poetry (for more information, see my "To the Lightho...

the 40th/last tanka in the sequence about diasporic experiences first starry night in the Year of the Dragon for now writing moon tanka beco...

the 39th tanka in the sequence about diasporic experiences Taiwan moon low in the Ajax sky the weight of my nostalgia measured in snowdrifts...

the 38th tanka in the sequence about diasporic experiences writing tanka ... in the attic window the winter star that didn't move is lon...

the 37th tanka in the sequence about diasporic experiences the harvest moon meets me at the window... echoes of Li Po's laughter in the ...

the 36th tanka in the sequence about diasporic experiences blooming fruit tree where we carved our initials ... alone at dawn ...

the 35th tanka in the sequence about diasporic experiences our eyes locked on each other for hours at the airport… a middle-aged face in s...

the 34th tanka in the sequence about diasporic experiences using few words I carve the long face of my critic with bleeding eyes... t...

the 33rd tanka in the sequence about diasporic experiences the look on my professor's face a red stain on the title of my poem: Language...

the 32nd tanka in the sequence about diasporic experiences the memory of our body conversations... the white trail from her Air Japan flight...

the 31st tanka in the sequence about diasporic experiences Ajax night and Taipei morning... New Year's blue moon in the bedroom window o...

the 30th tanka in the sequence about diasporic experiences old-age home in winter twilight I listen to his Hockey Night stories for minimum...

the 29th tanka in the sequence about diasporic experiences sorry, you're overqualified for the job... I crush the morning sun in ...

the 28th tanka in the sequence about diasporic experiences swaying in dreams Abandon your mother tongue, all who enter here midway through ...

the 27th tanka in the sequence about diasporic experiences from my tanka I look out the window a swing swaying in the back yard of a foreclo...

the 26th tanka in the sequence about diasporic experiences long hours after winter solstice finding my lines in the dripping sound of ...

the 25th tanka in the sequence about diasporic experiences a crescent moon in the attic window at three a.m. my tanka drifting with first...

the 24th tanka in the sequence about diasporic experiences new immigrant to the land of hungry ghosts of the Muse I write love tanka in crim...

the 23rd tanka in the sequence about diasporic experiences not so-called news another Chinese jumps off the roof... on the nightstand, his d...

the 22nd tanka in the sequence about diasporic experiences life is best understood backwards he whispers… side by side two engineers work...