CATHY SONG is the author of Picture Bride, Frameless Windows, Squares of Light, School Figures, and The Land of Bliss.
Poetry
Spring 2006
Cloud Moving Hands
Cloud moving hands,hand moving clouds—in the water, boundaries shift,the skin sheds its tight perspective,stretched into a vast shimmering.I enter the sea to the levelwhere my vision brims at the surface.The […]
Poetry
Spring 2000
The Girl Can Run
The girl can run. We marvel at her tongue. As fast as her little legs can carry her she runs. She is running as fast as her little legs can […]
Poetry
Summer 1998
The Sky-Blue Dress
The light says hurry and the woman gathers the perishables to the table, the fish thawed to a chilled translucency, the roses lifted out of a sink of rainwater, the […]
Poetry
Summer 1998
Stink Eye
Somebody been giving you Stink Eye? Let me tell you about Stink Eye. Stink Eye no mean nothing when you owe somebody money. Pay up, girl. No be in debt. […]
Poetry
Summer 1998
The Slow Upheaval of Mist
There is always a man walking down the road, a dog at his side, a man you saw when you were expecting to see the usual arrangement of trees. What […]