Authors /
Greg Huteson
History lesson
Tainan, Taiwan, 1990...
September 9, 2020
Spotted dove
After four months, the doves’ echolalic
cooing was already a phenom
we anticipated at dusk, unless a soughing rain
found our bougainvillea-rimmed balcony....
November 9, 2018
Advice for a young artist
If green curtains frame the window—
forest green an instructor would call them—
and if dust shades the glass,
a foreground of light slate—
if steel bars or aluminum...
September 13, 2018
Plastic Santa
It’s January and plastic Santastill plays his golden saxoutside a store on Jinhuapu Lu.His mechanized twiggy legsare barely hidas they twitch in tandem...
December 29, 2014
He’s not here
There’s no Jesus on the page.No church or priest or wafer.He’s a dark figure. An inkycharacter he is, that Jesus.Here there’s no ink for him....
April 9, 2014
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