137 - And so we go for a ride on Alternative Bus Routes in a City Long Gone, Portia Yu's micro-chap published by Ghost City Press as part of their 2025 Summer Series. Portia is a fellow Hong Kong poet and I was quite taken by her latest work so here you go~
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136 - The seed of competition. Who planted it? Following a conversation over the topic of what we leave behind and how much time we really have, I bring you two poems by the same poet. One written near the end of life, the other in young adulthood.
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Today's poems:
大尾篤冬景 / 梁秉鈞
English translation by Shiu-pang Almberg: 'Winter Scene from Tai Mei Tuk' by Leung Ping-kwan
茶 / 梁秉鈞
135 - I revisit my early years of living in Hong Kong when I tried to present myself as a poet who writes in Chinese (!?) plus a light-hearted moment I shared with the late great poet Leung Ping-kwan. Fresh from the oven (!!) I've got five poems being published at this time through two of my favourite publications: Voice & Verse and Canto Cutie.
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Today's poems:
鴛鴦 / 梁秉鈞
English translation by Martha Cheung: 'Tea-coffee' by Leung Ping-kwan
134 - Long poem alert. But seriously, when was the last time you had to start life in a new country while feeling young and ambitious and missing home a little? Those bits of home you brought with you... How did they serve you in your new surroundings and aspirations?
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Today's poems:
樂海崖的月亮 / 梁秉鈞 (也斯)
English translation by Gordon T. Osing: 'The Moon in La Jolla' by Leung Ping-kwan (Yesi)
133 - Speaking from my tiny room in Causeway Bay for the first time since May. A home is remembered by the way we move within it. And this feels like home. At least for now.
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Today's poems:
August in Waterton, Alberta / Bill Holm
Earbud / Bill Holm
沉靜 / 潘國靈
132 - This is the last broadcast from my summer retreat before I move back to my subdivided space, a raging urban landscape awaits. A few days ago I ran into an old friend, a fellow poet, while riding the 64K bus that takes me home from Kam Sheung Road Station.
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Today's poems:
木紋 / 米米
August / Mary Oliver
留不住 / 潘國靈
131 - The excitement of having written a good piece fades rather fast for me. Less than the duration of a cigarette. We have footbridges, hats, and a moment in the karaoke place. We also have poems including 'The Love-Hat Relationship' by Aaron Belz and '愛情獨舞' by 潘國靈 Lawrence Pun, one of my favourite Hong Kong writers.
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130 - Not sure what to make of the way I write while sitting by the window and the window ends up making its way into the poem. Today we read 'Tomorrow is a Place' by the Kashmiri-Canadian poet Sanna Wani and '距離' by 潘國靈 Lawrence Pun, one of my favourite Hong Kong writers.
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129 - I tell a friend why I write these frames that go nowhere. The value of reaching deep within by simply noticing things around me. I also give you two poems, one from the American poet Marie Howe, one from 潘國靈 Lawrence Pun, one of my favourite Hong Kong writers.
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128 - Very excited to be featured in an event this weekend where I'll be reading from a completed manuscript of poems that reflect on diaspora, religious trauma, and caregiving. As for this latest edition, I give you two poems from Safa Khatib's debut collection A Dress of Locusts
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127 - We speed through the raindrops on the windshield only to find another car's headlights beaming towards us and before we know it, it's gone right through. I turn around. Taillights fade till I don't see them no more. Today we feature a couple of surrealist poems by Karen Carney.
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126 - Because the sweltering heat is anything but an invitation to long reflective walks. And so we stay home to read about someone's pondering of someone else's pain/joy and it breaks my heart. In addition to my own writing, I also bring you the poem 'Pregnant Girl Creek' by Keetje Kuipers.
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125 - Navigating some internal turbulence as we cross into the second half of the year. Today I bring you a trio of poems that brought me back to me: 'Echocardiogram' by Alyssa Froehling, 'Furniture' by Lisa Allen Ortiz, and 'To be brave, I look to the daffodil' by Susan Nguyen.
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124 - Halfway through the year but not yet July, I wonder if my summer is passing me by. Drafts from last summer's writing experiment raise the question, at what point does a diary become a work of literature? I also bring you the poem 'For Grace, After a Party' by Frank O'Hara
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123 - This is about a stroll into Ginza and the book I didn't buy. The overall impression is one of minimalist design and understated elegance.
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122 - It’s an obscure sorrow I rarely discuss. Now that the longing has all but subsided, all that’s left is a genuine anticipation of what plays out on the other side of the moon.
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121 - Of all the homes you’ve ever lived in, which ones contain questions that remain unresolved? Which ones carry a gravitational pull that makes you want to revisit those questions? Would it be the case that all you want to visit is that version of yourself who occupied the house?
// 祖父們年輕的幽靈 / 終於繞過最長的蒼白 / 讓我看見一部 / 抽象的家族史 // -文於天
// So we continued in that way for some time, almost companionably // -Emily Berry
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120 - Thoughts on the mechanics of poetry and how our concerns for the lives around us are planted into shapes we may or may not be able to name
// 記得那深綠色的夜晚嗎 / 電話筒斷線的聲音，無法移動的手腕 / 記得躲在自己的臂彎裏/ 記得我微小地，輕輕地笑了出來 // -呂永佳
// Not everything we touch must touch the high holy. Not all nights are undrugged sleep // -Emilie Menzel
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119 - I speak to you from my summer village retreat in the New Territories where friends have offered a space for me to eat better, breathe better, and put the finishing touch to a pile of manuscripts long overdue
// 既說明道不同不相為謀 / 也暗示人相忘於江湖 / 我們是趕去西鐵站的上班族 / 他們愛晨運 // -曾瑞明
// If you were a cloud, and sailed up there, / You'd sail on water as blue as air, / And you'd see me here in the fields and say: / "Doesn't the sky look green today?" // -A. A. Milne
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118 - We go back to a time when I tried to imagine myself present in a memory that occured before I was born meaning I wasn't actually there but tried I did, pretending I was with them and telling them how that carpet would unroll...
// 三十歲快來了 / 一號風球中的平靜 / 昏黑的酒吧再談某人喜歡某人 / 然後又喜歡某人 / 然後離婚又再喜歡某人 // -曾瑞明
// He climbed up to the clock’s face and opened it with a key. No one but he knew what he saw // -Li-Young Lee
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