Translations

While I was in grad school, I translated these modernist Chinese poems. Sunday’s Key by Ouyang Jianghe (Jin Tian, 1993 #2, 93) In the light of Sunday morning, the key swings back and forth. Someone who came home at midnight cannot return to his own house. The sound of a key entering the keyhole is [...]

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Wayback to some early songs

The Wayback Machine has allowed me to recover these songs, which I wrote while in grad school. Not sure I could reconstruct the melody of the second one. Theoretical Blues Ain’t got a paradigm only a nickel to my name Ain’t got a paradigm only a nickel to my name Well, since my baby left [...]

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New post, old poems

These are some poems I wrote a long time ago, recently excavated from the late 1990′s. Some are older than that. The Necessity of Ice A December so warm the cherry trees let down their hair as women do at the end of the day. Trees release sap to flow through limbs like blood through [...]

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