Childhood? Which childhood? …
Li-Young Lee
Sad is the man who is asked for a story …
Open window. …
It wasn’t the bright hems of the Lord’s skirts …
When the big clock at the train station stopped, …
What’s The Word! she cries …
While the long grain is softening …
In the steamer is the trout …
1. …
any wonder …
From blossoms comes …
When the wind …
She begins, and my grandmother joins her. …
People have been trying to kill me since I was born, …
She turns. …
That sparrow on the iron railing, …
I buried my father …
Wrist, …
Li-Young, don’t feel lonely …
That scraping of iron on iron when the wind …
In sixth grade Mrs. Walker …
Say the words: …
I can hear in your voice …
Alone with time, he waits for his parents to wake, …
And when, in the city in which I love you, …
He gossips like my grandmother, this man …
To pull the metal splinter from my palm …
Bees come …
Doubt everything. …
Tonight my brother, in heavy boots, is walking …
Lie still now …
God-My-Father gave me three words: …
Another word for father is worry. …