september
...I have a couple of ‘research for credit’ classes this semester and I’m spending a lot of time with my TAs. Teaching Assistants (grad students) are essentially approachable professors with longer offi...
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Categories:
chiang, humor, school, strength, stress,
Form: Free verse
The Market Sellers
...An hour before dawn,
the market people arrive
then settle like nestling birds
beside the Ping river.
Girls squat over large straw hats,
hats brimful of dried chilies
or small freshwater fish....
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Categories:
chiang, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Vacation In Taiwan
...My most favorite vacation ever was in Taiwan,
That was in October 2019, not in year 1991.
I’d humorous experience with my four friends,
On arrival day and travelling by bus and train.
The momen...
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Categories:
chiang, vacation,
Form: Rhyme
The Market Sellers
...An hour before dawn,
the market people arrive
then settle like resting birds
beside the Ping river.
Girls squat over large straw hats,
hats brimful of dried chilies
or small freshwater fish.
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Categories:
chiang, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Fever
...A man with no fingers
waves his fingers at me.
My third day of amoebic dysentery
and though my yellow eye
can see, they see what they choose to.
The guy is not a feverish delusion,
he comes t...
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Categories:
chiang, poetry,
Form: Free verse
A Market In Northern Thailand
...They are not from Chiang Mai,
they are a tribal people
who speak a hill language.
They ride through the night
on bicycles to settle at dawn
beside the Ping River.
Girls' unroll rattan mats
s...
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Categories:
chiang, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Emerging Yellow
...When I look at the charred plasma
of a bare knuckled wind
I forget yellow
I forget the smeared tone
of skunk cabbage
rising through fog and mulch
or how in Chiang Mai
the river at sunset
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Categories:
chiang, poetry,
Form: Blank verse
I Love Osottanakorn and Your Goodwill
...I
Head of the Rescue Operation gave it to the World
Quietly, a universal Operation for children
Who may play in the World Cup someday
A coach barely 25, who helped 12 survive
Yes, the Ch...
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Categories:
chiang, adventure, appreciation, business, environment,
Form: Verse
Once
...Once,
About ten minutes ago in the year
2006 or
2549, depending upon which avatar or
Messiah is consulted, I
Tumbled out of my bed to the
Untranslatable
Predawn
Cackle of
Frantic voices
De...
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Categories:
chiang, political,
Form: Free verse
I Wish I Had Time For Poetry and Plays
...I wish I had time for poetry and plays
My mind allowed
As I watched the same aged, bespectacled monk
For about the fifteenth time this month
Patter his bare feet
Upon the pavement
Of the dust...
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Categories:
chiang, me, philosophy, places, poetry,
Form: Free verse