poems - Jack Cheng

Black and white. White desk with computer monitor next to window, looking out onto trees. Clay, tile, tools, keyboard.

#380: A Threshold, Four Ways of Knowing

Week 1 of Building Beauty.

Trees in snowy woods, three tagged with pink spray paint.

#361: War and Pause

Ukraine, Ilya Kaminsky, and a memory of 2003.

Polling site in an empty school cafeteria.

#317: An Election Diary

Notes from working the polls.

Feet marching, shadow of your photographer.

#310: Spring Moving to Summer

Words accompanying a photo series in The Detroit Free Press.

#288: Desiderata

The rediscovery of a favorite poem.

#249: Rendezvous

#244: Scaffolding

Me in the store, pointing to a stack of books.

#194: End of the Tour

Tan leather couch in empty modern apartment. Foam wrap unpacking. Orange cube sculpture out the window.

#176: Moving Day

Black and white of desk. Keyboard, spiral fossil, broken spoon, Mary Oliver's Felicity.

#174: Nothing Too Small

Black and white, stadium flags and trim, sun flare and clouds.

#65: A New Cycle Begins

POV with shoes, Toms, chalked in hex stone tile, 'do i dare disturb the Universe?'

#63: A True Account of Meeting Frank O’Hara in Washington Square Park

Black and white. Stately spruce, rising above high-rises.

#62: Three Scenes from a Friday

Apartment building siding painted light blue and white, matching above clouds and sky.

#61: I am a Tree (and Other Observations)

Orange traffic cone on the hood of a red SUV; an urban unicorn.

#60: It’s Summer

Black and white. Oval oculus-light in shadowy yurt, outlines of vases and closed blinds.

#59: A Somewhat Minor Incident

Zebra print cross walk, green bus in background.

#38: Soroche

#14: No One Is To Use the Stereo