Mid-January with Chinese Poet — For Doug

By Chet Corey

I am reading Meng Hao-jan’s poems
and drinking the last of tea at twilight.

My wife, up from a late-in-the-day nap,
has taken the dog for her evening walk.

When they return, we will begin supper:
last night’s soup, oven-warm hard rolls.

By then, dark with its limb-breaking cold!
I leave Hao-jan bundling firewood home.

Chet Corey 's poetry has previously appeared in SHARK REEF and most recently in Common Ground Review, Studio One, The Talking Stick and in the antholgy Naming Hope (The Benedictine Center of Saint Paul's Monastery, 2019).

All work by Chet Corey

SHARK REEF

A Literary Magazine

Issue Thirty-One - Winter 2018

Mid-January with Chinese Poet — For Doug

By Chet Corey