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  • Un retour à Montréal

    Des instantanés et poèmes tentatives sur une ville préférée. // Snapshots and short verses on a favorite city.

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    July 2, 2024
    Basilique Notre-Dame, Canada, Chinese food, fortune, fortune cookie, French, jazz, Montréal, Photography, Poetry

  • Upstate

    Heading north.

    Northbound on the Adirondack Northway (Interstate 87) just south of Plattsburgh, NY.
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    July 1, 2024
    curve, forest, highway, landscape, line, mountain, nature, New York, Poetry, road, sky, travel, upstate

  • Every Day We Practice

    On holding onto the languages (and their speakers) we love. For H. W.

    The interior of Eastern Bookstore NYC (紐約東方書店), located at 13-17 Elizabeth Street in Manhattan’s Chinatown.
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    June 30, 2024
    America, Belgium, Cantonese, childhood, China, Dutch, English, fluency, French, Hong Kong, identity, language, language learning, Mandarin, multilingualism

  • Brush Work

    More exercises in watercolor, plus a few paintings.

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    June 30, 2024
    art, brushwork, New York, New York School of the Arts, Painting, watercolor

  • Poetics

    A definition and an example.

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    June 29, 2024
    brushes, conditions, Painting, parents, Photography, poetics, Poetry, possibility, structures, water, watercolor

  • Midtown: Three Spare Poems

    City scenes and a concept (of sorts).

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    June 28, 2024
    Bryant Park, form, Hudson Yards, manhattan, New York, Poetry, shape, size, spare poems, urban landscape

  • Koi

    Figures beneath a surface.

    Image source: Wikimedia Commons (User: Aquafanatic).
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    June 27, 2024
    depth, desire, enlightenment, fish, koi, mystery, optimism, Poetry, purity, surface, water

  • Beyond the Window

    An evening walk.

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    June 27, 2024
    Chinese culture, moon, mother, New Jersey, parting, Poetry, sorrow, Su Shi, walking

  • An Exercise

    A rhetorical answer to a rhetorical question.

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    June 26, 2024
    adaptation, border crossing, borders, internationalization, interview, language, Poetry, tongue

  • Syncing

    A micro-poem. After a concept by Harryette Mullen.

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    June 25, 2024
    cloud, data, micropoem, Poetry, sinking, syncing

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