Li Qing Zhao’s Kitchen

By Carrie Chang

Li Qing Zhao’s Kitchen is a pandemonium of quick words, a hot-stop of new age versification, tender poems written by the disco ball of the 21st century dark music of revolution and upheaval, a glorious song of abc and cherry tree phonetics

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jul 7, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669826224

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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CONTENTS

Li Qing Zhao’s Kitchen

21st Century Ghetto

Goof

Kai-Su Buzz

Global Arcade

Freedoms Serfs Dream of

Ode to Crazy Produce

Jolly Blooming Nation

In the heavenly space of ten thousand

Crumpets & Crumpets

Plum-ball Plutonics

Frogger For the Season

Like a Southern Mountain

Jokey Jin’s Detour into Arcadia

Recalcitrant Bitch Speech

A Cartoon Written at 8 am in the City

Perch

Guanyin’s Detour

The Game of Life

Sad Chicks Really Do the Dance

Lonely Planet Forgive Us

Tetris Days and the Mob Squad Et Al

Insecurity

Moves as Fast it Throws

Tyranny of The Plane Tree

The Super-Giants

Realigning Myself on a Saturday Afternoon

Bubble-Tea Goddess

Lettuce Wisdom

Drunken Maiden Days and Halibut

Eggs and Prozac a Go-Go

Chinese Cry-Baby

Matcha, oozingly

The Hum Drum, Ribbit

The Men Who Shrug

An Ounce of Eternity

The Hyacinth Years

Rainy subway of my mind

Chirps like Shadows

Rip Up the Silken Shoe

But, Seriously

Adam and Eve

Translator

Lotus Larks

Little Chesire

God-Fearing Banana

Asian Lullaby

All Fairytale Fro Yo

The Misfit Part of You

Tenderly

Kazoo Fonts We Love

Sixteen Moons

Pass the Peaches

Topaz Afternoons

In the Frying Pan

The Cheongsam from Hell

A Lonely Dragon

The Painted Duchess

Deranged as Flowers

Dedicated to Father Thomas Merton, who blessed me

LI QING ZHAO’S

KITCHEN

1.

S poons that are wheem-si -cal

and walls which are argot blue,

Candles burning signet straight

Come blinding back to you,

a starling for your dope

White mouth; a hint

that you’ll face turgid south ;

the surrealist petals

of those floury nights, could

Enliven peerless dreams of hua-liang

In green, silken tights; those

Astro-flings with little tea-cups,

Have made the forsythia blush

With fear, fear the rice-cakes

Sank to the bottom

of the scope of yesteryear,

Sempiternal quads of tofu

Signal