“…Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!—and you, Garcia Lorca,
what were you doing down by the watermelons?”
excerpt from a “Supermarket in California” by Allen Ginsburg

“Why the extraneous plant,
why the taboret,
why, oh why the doily?”
-excerpt from “Filling Station” by Elizabeth Bishop

“…The month when the pitch tube is yellow bell…

But first it seemed that a White Lotus

had floated up from the Dragon King’s palace…

There was something eating its way inside the rim,

The rim was as though a strong man hacked off pieces with an ax…

The pearl of the fiery dragon, which flew up out of its brain,

went back into the oyster’s womb.

Ring and disc crumbled as I watched…”

Excerpts from “The Eclipse of the Moon” by Lu Tong