The Terracotta Army
...We drove all day on dusty roads to Xian
in the Shaanxi province
to see the clay men.
The army is deployed in large archaeological pits.
Our guide, a Chinese beauty, marshals us from the front
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Categories:
cheongsam, poetry,
Form: Blank verse
Falling In Love the Chinese Way
...dress-suit occasioned, to the eye perception
toasts and canned laughter,in the name of making out
can i buy you a drink, the prologue of octopused slumber
seated on a cold stool...
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Categories:
cheongsam, cute love, first love,
Form: Free verse
Who Dares To Take This Life From Me,Knows No Better: Parts Three and Four
...III
This is the land of the convectional rains
Which vie on the monsoon back scrubbing streets
This is the land at half-past four
The rainbow rubs the chilli face of the afternoon
And an evening-mor...
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Categories:
cheongsam, political, rain, rain,
Form: Free verse