From a Three-Cornered World (eBook)

SELECTED PEOMSfrom 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 Americanfrom 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 CrocusNEW 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-- RationaleCleveland 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 CafePainting 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 BreathingAcknowledgments