Sunlight

By Barbara Chung

Sunlight, the debut poetry collection from Barbara Chung, illuminates the joy of being alive even in a deeply troubled world. It reveals the magic in life's day-to-day moments, whether tending a garden, sharing food with friends, or caring for beloved dogs. The poems move delicately and gracefully between the ordinary and the transcende

• Language: English
• Publisher: Canyon Wren Press LLC
• Release date: Oct 6, 2020
• ISBN: 9781735448916

Barbara Chung

Barbara Chung is the author of the poetry collection Sunlight. Along with writing, she serves as a business strategy advisor and tends her garden, a certified wildlife habitat. She studied at Harvard University and University of California, Los Angeles. Barbara lives in Santa Monica, California.

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Copyright © 2020 by Barbara Chung

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or performed without written consent from the author, if living, except for critical articles or reviews.

Canyon Wren Press

Santa Monica, California

www.canyonwrenpress.net

Cover design by Lluvia Arras

Cover and author photographs by Jack Smith

Sunlight / Barbara Chung – 1st edition

ISBN 978-1-7354489-0-9 (paperback) / ISBN 978-1-7354489-1-6 (eBook)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2020913948

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Printed in the United States of America

For my mother and father, and in memory of Ella

Contents

Rain

Breakfast

Honeybee

Fatal Metalmark

On the 7th of January, 2020

On the Last Day of May

Here

Listen

Suicide Rock

Embrace

Sled Run

Alchemy

Cinnamon

Christmastime

Waiting Rooms

Sentinels

Silence

Tonight

Strain

California Sagebrush

Solstice

Birdsong

Stillness

Today

Ladybug

Heirlooms

Seeds

Pandora’s Box

Forgiveness

Blossoms

Flame

Longevity

Willowherb

Treasures

Speak, Love

Canyon Wren

Hummingbirds

California Avenue

Sunlight (I & II)

Acknowledgments

Notes

About the Author

Weeping may endure for a night,

but joy comes in the morning.

—Psalm 30:5

Sunlight

Rain

When children walk in the rain, they look up,

tilt their heads back till grownups and houses

disappear, fill their vision with—with what?

I’ll never know unless I look up too.

Cashmere clouds, gentle