Category Archives: Poetry

Perhaps heaven is not like this

Posted on December 24, 2014 by Meisaan Chan

Perhaps heaven is not like this an endless city in the sky perhaps it’s not a place, or even a thought perhaps it’s a beyond-thought, a beyond-existence © Meisaan Chan   (Photo credit: Twisted Sifter)

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Bedbug meditations

Posted on December 23, 2014 by Meisaan Chan

 1. Trudging to the laundromat, de-bedbugging    The full moon hung like a wafer in the sky, full and unbelievably bright, her shyness having fallen away, and I, trudging with my contaminated clothes, bathed in the cleanness of her light, in … Continue reading →

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The Persistent One

Posted on December 22, 2014 by Meisaan Chan

Sometimes I come and you’re not there; maybe you’re out to lunch or didn’t hear the page – no shame. It happens. I’ll be back. © Meisaan Chan    

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The Carver

Posted on December 22, 2014 by Meisaan Chan

  Carve out a little space, O God and then, when nestled, carve the walls yet further still until the shavings curl away in thick cloud-piles, until the walls are thin, then holed, then open, until you carve the nothingness: … Continue reading →

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The encounter

Posted on December 19, 2014 by Meisaan Chan

  The deer stares, frozen as we breathe one vapored breath hearts pound, hand reaches     © Meisaan Chan

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Hunger, revisited

Posted on December 18, 2014 by Meisaan Chan

  I eat, am not full and eat more, to emptiness – wrong stomach, wrong food     © Meisaan Chan

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Apartment complex

Posted on December 17, 2014 by Meisaan Chan

  Cry of bird from across my hallway all our cages     © Meisaan Chan

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Haiku

Posted on December 16, 2014 by Meisaan Chan

  New tongue on my tongue thick curtain lifts giant stars await     © Meisaan Chan

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So much strength

Posted on December 15, 2014 by Meisaan Chan

  So much strength and yet so gentle     © Meisaan Chan   (Photo credit: Twisted Sifter)

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More important than having control

Posted on December 12, 2014 by Meisaan Chan

  More important than having control is knowing when to relinquish it     © Meisaan Chan

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