Tagged: asian
to be taiwanese
to be taiwanese
is to be interrogated
for some things you know
nothing about except for
the shape of a sweet potato
.
20211124:2207
y
we are attempting
we are attempting
to speak with a single voice – no
group has ever built
unity underneath an
invisibility cloak
.
20210317:2027
y
no one ever taught
no one ever taught
us to be silent weavers –
it came naturally,
swinging from one unseen soul
to the next, making us whole
.
20210308:2034
y
inside each waiting
between model
between model
minority and model
citizen is a gap –
we are trying to
fill it with everything
we know, everything we
experience, everything
that comes our way,
plagued with blind spots
perfected by society
.
20160827:0710
y
you are watching the
you are watching the
latest martial arts darling
in asian cinema, something
enigmatic, poetic,
reserved, i am wavering
between accepting and
rejecting myself for not
being as intoxicated,
enraptured by this
exotic intrigue.
there is a fine pretense
between belonging and
not belonging, i can’t
solve for the variables
while holding myself
at arm’s length
.
20160101:2131
y
in the drawing room
in the drawing room
before sunrise, our piano
is picking up your
Japanese –
darkness swallows
the translation, but
the influence
strikes memories
out of my sleep
.
20140930:0846
y
home is an east-west
in the pentatonic
in the pentatonic
drip of Colin
McPhee, the
radiator dared
to tune his flute,
nearly catching
up beneath the
layers of
ostinati, with
a strained
persistence
between a handful
of parallel fifths
and finally
hitting the
downbeat just
shy of the gong
.
20130321:0830
y
they hand them out with
they hand them out with
very little instructions
in these parts. it is
only sometimes
wallet-sized. i have
seen several distinctive
placards jerked
around as weapons
or shields – nothing
bulletin-sized,
mind you.
at the end of the
day, it is never really
a surprise –
we are wired to
form patterns, take
sides. it requires
more effort to
override the shortcut
than, say, pull
out that race card
.
20120225:1039
y
y 