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Greg Huteson

Poetry

History lesson

        Tainan, Taiwan, 1990...
Poetry

Poem

Roomed with solitude and a tablet while zongzi steams in the rice cooker. Dragon Boat Festival is the day after tomorrow, but this is not about that—...
Poetry

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....
Poetry

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...
Poetry

Still life

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Poetry

And rise

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Poetry

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...
Poetry

At dusk

There’s a black cloud over the hill.There’s a black cloud over the school. The grass shoves the shed to the fenceat property’s edge. Rumor says under the shed...
Poetry

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....

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