Poetry

"...Los Angeles is not..."

"I got nothing to give, reader..."

"...one chance at inner redemption, for a crime I did not commit..."

"...a million specks of light, two million divots of shadow..."

Visual poetry ...

"...he's down like a thrown cigarette..."

"...The trees still watch and sing..."

"...what you get when you mix crap and spectacular..."

"...is a clock that measures our lifespans a terrorist..."

"...Out of the mental malaise and stifling curse of greed Money had become too important..."

"...And from all four directions began their run..."

"...moaning from behind his silver cow skull mask..."

"...From a little drop of water the world came into being..."

"...Did I know that you are a new reality..."

"...Above The earth The sky Just beyond..."

"...In blackness, an indistinct day is made another..."

"...such friendly banter which wishes only joy and tender years to come..."

"...the words embedded like slumbering spirits..."

"...and the thunder that rolls in a bed of clouds..."

"...Open the old envelope On the depths of time..."

"...The gradual engagement of entropy gains traction over time..."

"...dogged denialists..."

Xi Nan (Nancy), contemporary poet, writer, and translator, was born in western Hunan, China. She used to be the lifestyle columnist of the (British) BBC UKChina website, and was nominated for the Zijin Star by People's Literature, China for her debut novel.

"...curious for credible anthems..."

"...His sax blaring like a rattlesnake bite..."

"...Dead things are to be noble In their fleeting decay..."

"...he may rest and contemplate the infinite..."

"...All she requires is a view..."

"...'how much time?' i ask..."

"...Detoxing was up and instructive..."