A Poet's Roving Thoughts: Featured Poet in Issue 21, tsuri-dōrō

Issue #21 – May/June 2024

Featured Poet – Chen-ou Liu

        a white lie

        to cover another

        early snowfall

                          light of dawn

                          a tai chi master

                          pushes the silence

AA meeting

the stony silence

after I used to be …

                  my wife’s kiss

                  on the yellow post-it

                  paper anniversary

                  im-mi-grant ...

                  the way English tastes

                  on my tongue

Chen-ou Liu is currently the editor and translator of NeverEnding Story, and the author of two award-winning books, Following the Moon to the Maple Land (First Prize, 2011 Haiku Pix Chapbook Contest) and A Life in Transition and Translation (Honorable Mention, 2014 Turtle Light Press Biennial Haiku Chapbook Competition). His tanka and haiku have been honored with 154 awards (as of May 2, 2024)

Note: I also have the following 2 haiku published in Issue 21, May/June 2024:

the spoken and unspoken

between my wife and me

pink blossom rain

virus outbreak

the hospital fountain

fills with coins