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Chen-ou Liu

table for one
barely above a whisper …
year-end dinner

snow crystals
on my neighbor’s windows …
Foreclosure askew

first job interview
my shadow
on the sunlit snow

strawberry stains
on the corners of my son’s mouth …
his laugh in my laughter

laid off again …
this snowy night lengthens
car by car

alone with my shadow
on the childhood beach
gull after gull …

Chen-ou Liu is the author of two award-winning books,  Following the Moon to the Maple Land  and A Life in Transition and Translation. His tanka and haiku have been honoured with many awards.

Rachel Spence

      Haiku Calendar January, fear Like a preacher, elsewhered, dubbed To a moonbeam howl February - wolf Lopes across rock-snarled borders Inhuman stone tongue March - willow-wand faith Unbridled, even tonight As the mouse roars by April – shameless...

Chen-ou Liu

  tongues of fire ... the things I take the things it takes * drawn-out yawn . . . morning sunlight tangled in my old dog's tail * beach sunset paints her face wine-red before love after love * around a bend in the wooded trail giant cliff Buddha * ocean breeze a...