Chen-ou Liu Poems

alone
in the inky darkness...
"it'll go away"
I whisper
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A Haibun

That afternoon I was rocked into a deep sleep. In my dream I saw Mother holding me tightly and tearfully whispering a lullaby, "My child! ... Fear not, and sleep well."
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A Senryu Sequence


laid off
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My Dear Friends:

The Heron's Nest just announced the results of The Readers' Choice Awards for 2018. And I won a Popular Poet Award for the following four haiku published in 2018, and the "in and out" haiku was anthologized in a hole in the light: The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2018:
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