In the margins

 Writing found in the margins of some books 

The Selected Poems of Li Po

But you drew conclusions

it is all a dream

that each of us can appreciate

from our own perspectives

Du Fu A Life in Poetry

Waiting in a coffee shop

Mother’s Day

are our lives

colliding or coinciding

sometimes it is hard to tell

the coffee is warm and good

Du Fu awaits

perhaps I should enjoy the calm

before the storm

Thank you, Mark,

for sharing an ancient incarnation

of Mary Oliver

Climbing down from mountains and memories

Such contradictions

joy of family and children versus

living as a hermit

does this say anything about the value of women

alice walker

over-

coming

speech-

lessness

All a sad reminder of how we perpetuate through our ignorance

I learned that Alice also cried for the world in a ritual, a ceremony of healing, to show that we are connected to those we love and to the beautiful flowers, grass, stones…

“Whatever has happened to humanity, whatever is currently happening to humanity, it is happening to all of us.”

New Cathay

Contemporary Chinese Poetry

Edited by Ming Di

A dichotomy

alone in a strange city

walking the streets

to a restaurant

passing locked  cars

waiting for someone to

descend a workplace elevator or

staircase and 

emerge.

Connected because we are

the awakening yellow leaves

the flowing river

the red hat sunset

reflected on the steel gray clouds overhead.

Not connected because

I know no one

we each do not know the other

where am I.