"I know noble accents
And lucid, inescapable rhythms"
----Wallace Stevens
"Thirteen Ways of Looking at Blackbird"
Mei-Li Liu
Mei-Li Liu, born and raised in Taiwan, lives in Colorado. Her poetry has appeared in Skipping Stones Magazine, Brave Hearts, Red Hawk Review , Mid-America Poetry Review, Brave Hearts, Arabesques Review, Essential Wellness and The Heron’s Nest. 2009. Her work has been included in Asian American Female Poets Anthology and is forthcoming in and Chrysanthemum and Taj Mahal Review .
Mei-Li Liu
Born on a Fishing Boat
I was born on fishing boat
Lying in
basket
Ocean tide rocking me to sleep
Papa fishing all-day and
all-night
Mama’s washings hanging on line
Above my head
Misty sea
washing my face
Northern wind whispering to my ears
Angel of sea
kissing my forehead
Beneath paper moon
My little arms out from the
cradle
Out to the breeze
Happy, born on fishing boat
By the
sea
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