A Poem for My Chinese Friends (写诗给我的中国朋友)

Happy Spring Festival

In the Year of the Rat

Which some consider

A sign of the plague

It's time to be

Nimble and swift

As we leap from 

Ship to ship

We may yet find

A route back home

After living in the Diaspora

For far too long

Photo by Christy Rupp

春节快乐

是老鼠年

有人认为

瘟疫征兆

但实际上
灵活性是

我们最要

记住的事

老鼠法是

从船到船

快速跳跃

 如果沿着

这条路走

提高运气

引导回家

这么长时

是散居者