enter literary
enter visualA Woman Within a House
Jun. 2009: “The Woman Within Her House” won 12th Mattia Family International Poetry Contest Second Prize. This poem was also selected for a project: A Woman’s Journey, will be showcased in Shanghai and Dali in China My poetry journey video clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5WWbNoIi7o
The Woman within Her House
Around the doorway, you wander,
breathe in two languages.
Remembrance is a house
with two back yards.
You want to add windows.
Not for increasing its value,
nor to make it pretty.
Just because you live there.
The wind swings the door open—
shadows float in moonlight.
Someday you’ll get tired
and list the house for sale.
But somewhere else, behind a door,
whispers imitate languages.
Nobody knows where you have been—
the rain is like a curtain,
your face veiled.
from my book "Wings Toward Sunlight" (Mosaic Press 2011)
