From a Three-Cornered World

SELECTED PEOMS

from Journal of the Sun 1974

-- Destination: Tule Lake Relocation Center

-- Photograph of a Child

-- Picture of a Japanese Farmer

-- Section Hand, Great Northern Railway

-- The Morning My Father Died

-- Watching Bon Odori

-- Because It Is Close and My Mother Is

-- Shrike on Dead Tree

-- Ohashi in a Shower

-- Painting of a Hermitage

-- Nisei: Second-Generation Japanese American

from Crossing the Phantom River 1978

-- Allowance

-- When Father Came Home for Lunch

-- Katori Maru

-- Holding Center, Tanforan Race Track

-- Block 18, Tule Lake Relocation Camp

-- The Table Lamp

-- Samurai

-- Surrounded by Autumn

-- Waterfall at Dusk

-- Exhibition

-- Painting by a Mental Patient

-- Cape Alava

-- For a Chinese Pheasant

-- New Lines for Fortune Cookies

-- For the Ballerina in Death Valley Junction

from After the Long Train 1986

-- Shakuhachi

-- The East Watch House

-- Minoru Mitsui

-- Because of My Father's Job

-- Wooden Flower Vase

-- Visiting My Mother at Kawabe House

-- After a Stranger Calls

-- Letter to Tina Koyama

-- In Sight of Purple Crocus

NEW POEMS

Flexing Our Rippling Metaphors

-- English Teachers

-- What the Math Teacher Told Jim

-- Isla Mujeres: My American Sonnet, 1986

-- Letter to Ransom from Green Lake

-- The World of Becoming

-- Closure

-- In Front of the Geoduck Display

-- Paris Windows: Some Linked Bantu

-- Because You Left Three Rocks

-- Graffiti in a University Restroom

-- Rationale

Cleveland Was Farther Away Than July

-- You are Beautiful

-- Christmas Poem, 1987

-- Christmas Poem for Lilly

-- Southwest of Stovepipe Wells

-- Tohono O'Odham Indian Cemetery

-- A Birthday Poem for Lilly

-- Ode to My '94 Honda Passport

-- From a Window of Lowell's Cafe

Painting Sunlight on the Wooden Wall of a House

-- Getting Ready for Grandparenthood

-- My Mother Juggling Bean Bags

-- Wedding Poem for Janet & Drew

-- At the Tom Mix Memorial

-- Mitsui in English Means "Three Wells"

-- Spring Poem for the Sake of Breathing

Acknowledgments