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So, here you are
too foreign for home
too foreign for here
never enough for both
"diaspora blues" by Ijeoma Umebinyuo
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As if we knew what the other was feeling. We don’t,
of course. We never do. No matter.
It’s the tenderness I care about.
-Raymond Carver, "The Gift"
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Yu Guangzhong 余光中, the great poet of the Chinese diaspora who spent most of his life in Taiwan, passed away six years ago today. Here is his best known work (somewhat to his chagrin) - “Nostalgia” 鄉愁 - a small poem of longing, in his own handwriting, alongside my quick translation.
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Back when I was young and devout and in Catholic school, my first act of defiance was refusing to sing a hymn that had a line to the effect of “let the Lord choose who I am to be.” I had just seen #BrigitteLin林青霞 on the big screen the night before - I was six? and she rocked my world.
I only wanted to grow up to be her; therefore, to sing otherwise would be a boldfaced lie.
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So, here you are
too foreign for home
too foreign for here
never enough for both
"diaspora blues" by Ijeoma Umebinyuo
#everynightapoem
How will I know you in the underworld?
How will we find each other?
-Eavan Boland (1944-2020)
from “Eurydice Speaks”
#everynightapoem
As if we knew what the other was feeling. We don’t,
of course. We never do. No matter.
It’s the tenderness I care about.
-Raymond Carver, "The Gift"
#everynightapoem #thismorning
Today marks the beginning of the 23rd of 24 micro-seasons: "Lesser Cold" #小寒, marking entry into the chilliest period of the year (小寒大寒,滴水成冰).
More precisely, we are in Lesser Cold's first pentad, "When Wild Geese Fly Northward…
things got terribly ugly incredibly quickly
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ugly things will get less ugly inevitably hopefully
Terrance Hayes, "American Sonnet for the New Year"
As ever, for #everynightapoem on January 1
A Very Merry Maggie to all –
[a cheeky mise-en-abyme Maggie Cheung by Christopher Doyle, on set of Wong Kar-wai's In the Mood for Love]
Yu Guangzhong 余光中, the great poet of the Chinese diaspora who spent most of his life in Taiwan, passed away six years ago today. Here is his best known work (somewhat to his chagrin) - “Nostalgia” 鄉愁 - a small poem of longing, in his …
Back when I was young and devout and in Catholic school, my first act of defiance was refusing to sing a hymn that had a line to the effect of “let the Lord choose who I am to be.” I had just seen #BrigitteLin林青霞 on the big screen the n…
“Since our extraordinary conversation I have thought of nothing else.”
I couldn’t help rummaging through my shelves for my A.S. Byatt books, including my most oft-read Byatt, my copy of Possession - all spine-cracked and scribbled over and…
It's not that my love for flowers exceeds life itself -
Just that I grieve how petals, like years, rush to fade
不是愛花即欲死
只恐花盡老相催
-杜甫 Tu Fu (712-770)
Sharing a remembered spring blossom and a bit of a favorite poem, for a fl…
“It is also November. The noons are more laconic and the sundowns sterner. November always seemed to me the Norway of the year.”
-Emily Dickinson, letter to Lavinia Dickinson (Nov 1864)
#everynightapoem #november
Then be pitiless you whom I could not save –
Send your cries to me, if only in this way:
I've found a prisoner's letters to a lover –
One begins: "These words may never reach you."
Another ends: "The skin dissolves in dew
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