Aaron Louie - Poetry

ink [1993]

today
i write with pen
and am sad
for all I write
do
say
in ink
is permanent
i cannot erase
what i have
thought cannot
erase or remove
my mistakes
  1. [Reflections on a blustery day]
  2. [Were I a carpenter]
  3. [Box that is black]
  4. [Recurring Dream]
  5. [Deftly,deftly creep...]
  6. [Tigers]
  7. [Ode to Sweaters, Hot Tea, and Cold Feet]
  8. [Only the blue people...]
  9. [Cherished Moments]
  10. [Kristen says I talk too much]
  11. [Gray Day]
  12. [Brother Fly]
  13. [Summer Song]
  14. [Where I Live]
  15. [Samhain Song]
  16. [Blossoms]
  17. [From Malcom to Macbeth]
  18. [Don't make this hard on me]
  19. [Who are you, silly boy?]
  20. [but]
  21. [turning over rocks]
  22. [sped my life]
  23. [Incantations for a Rooftop Exorcism #1: Exorcism of Autumn]
  24. [Incantations for a Rooftop Exorcism #2: Exorcism of Youth]
  25. [Wake up!]
  26. [Delicate delicate]
  27. [Push these lips apart]
  28. [My world is all too small]
  29. [I let the patterns]
  30. [She fancies us children]
  31. [It is the sound]
  32. [The lines they connect]
  33. [and here we come to the end of this]
  34. [Song 1: Spheres within spheres]
  35. [understory]
  36. [When you left to the roar of the train]
  37. [Song 2: To drown the spirits]
  38. [Song 3: Troposphere]
  39. [Two sticks]
  40. [These teeth which chatter on]
  41. [City bus]
  42. [Velvet blanket darkness]
  43. [Dynamo]
  44. [Breeze]
  45. [incomplete]
  46. [april blues]
  47. [The Forest Road]
  48. [Behind My Ribcage]
  49. [meanwhile, the throbbing sea]
  50. [drink]
  51. [Donors]
  52. [the house we moved to]
  53. [we walked]
  54. [3:55 in the afternoon]
  55. [perfect]
  56. [Incantations for a Rooftop Exorcism #3: Exorcism of Illusion]
  57. [Sitting]
  58. [Yet another Red Fish poem]
  59. [Cataract]
  60. [Finally to unconscious]

All words and pictures by Aaron J. Louie.