Mulberry Myths

By Carrie Chang

Mulberry Myths is a poetic rouser of sixteen melodies, a razzamatazz of sino-images that are a token of this romantic movement of magical linguistic bravura, a modern symphony of eastern melody

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Feb 3, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669805571

Carrie Chang

Carrie Chang was born in 1970, in Syracuse, New York. She attended Stanford University, UC-Berkeley and New York University, obtaining her B.A., and M.J. and M.F.A. in English and journalism and creative writing, respectively. She worked as an Asian American journalist in the arts/political field for almost a decade, creating her own magazine, “Monolid,” and lives as a writer/poet in the Bay Area. Her favorite pastimes include swimming and painting.

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Rev. date: 12/29/2021

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CONTENTS

Mulberry Myths

A Hunger for the Buddha of Good Rice and Memory

Faerie Climes

The Candy Cig

King Scalawag

Darny Xiao Jieh (Mistress Darny)

Lone Crusader in Shanghai Barnes and Noble

Pac-Man Inside

Soong Dynasty Shoes

Literary Empress

Cosmic Shampoo for Silly Sort of Days

Sephora Women

Unagi

Buddha No More

A Dowager Shops in the Old Days

Unlock the door

The Economist

Every Proper Cent

Go Time at St. Alps

Sea Cucumber in Peuce 3 p.m Afternoon Doldrums

Of Supermen and Bandits

Compassion of the Evening Zen Master

Pictos of a Lanyard Rose

Strange Love

Little Shop of Horrors

Gong-Show Fades So Fast

Soong Swan Ladies

Mistress Oh-Ee-Vay

The Painted Shoe

Waited For So Long

The Emperor Sighed

Hibiscus Tribe

Basho’s Summons

Screwy Women of the Tang

Humpty-Dumpty Again

The Anorexic Maison

Gods of Trivial Pursuit

Luck and Childhood Games

Chrysanthemum Efforts

The Evergreen Society

Li Po Eating Blueberries

Crystal Ball Days

Gung Ho Flower

Beyond the odds

Canto Music of Lost Youth

Blue Random Cricket on a Summer’s Day

Fable Femme Figurines

Let Us Go Shadow-Boxing

Little Missus Harmonica Day

Joyless as Rice

Master Paradise, Methinks

Apologia to a Twinkie, etc.

The Times They Haven’t Changed

Two Strokes a Person

Hi Ho Jive and Automatic Jitters

Hopeless Though It Seems

Heart-Shaped Jade Speaks

Precious Peach

Psycho Fortune Déja Vu

Poppins Rose

Confessions of a plum-faced beatnik

Skippy Infinity

Norton in my Bed

Your Vicious Sunday Morning Blooms

(

Dedicated to my uncle I-Dee Chang, who was mythical)

MULBERRY MYTHS

S usurrus is what you are,

And on violetta days I think

Of you, on crests and waves,

Of this angel-fire, the spectral

light is stripped sincerely pale like

the white sepals,

On a faded flower, please

Don’t forget me, when oleanders

Spook me with their curve, I

Count my tragedy day by day,

I speak this name as that hurricane

denuded the grass and called

To mind the glassy kingdom

Of Life; the gobbledygook

Of the sunrise disappears, in

Vernal space,