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2 contents 10 Preface 11 Acknowledgments 13 fire in the wood 14 Fire in the Wood Ngo Chan Luu 15 Taaroa Tahitian Traditional Poem 15 Island Albert Wendt 16 Birth of Sea and Land Life from The Kumulipo 18 Moana Kauraka Kauraka 19 Turtle and Coconut Kauraka Kauraka 20 The River Flow.) Back Kumalau Tawali 21 Long Ago... Pablo Neruda 22 Water needs no feet... Philippine saying 22 Ultimate Problems William Stafford 23 Kitchen Philosophy Sudesh Mishra 23 Looking thru Those Eye-holes Russell Soaba 24 The Great Bird of Love over the Kingdom Paul Zimmer 26 Litany Raymond Pillai 26 i thank You God for most this amazing E. E. Cummings 17 Walking Westward in the Morning Sapardi Djoko Damono 29 / couldn 't think straight, do thought crooked 30 Water Monster Howard Norman 31 Moo Albert Wendt 32 Mookini Heiau Martha Webb 33 Bread of Dreams Amrita Pritam 34 Ghulaine's Quilt Eric Chock 35 The Door on Its Hinges Martha Webb 35 A Hot Day Arthur Yap 36 Don't Go Back to Sleep Rumi 36 Sleep Is like a Bridge Juan Ramon Jimenez 36 Fish shop... Matsuo Basho 36 The Brook G. Burce Bunao 37 The Fish in the Attic Philip Dacey 38 A Game Fleur Adcock 39 Stone Charles Simic 40 Islands Nicholas Hasluck

3 41 School Policy on Stickmen Sam Hunt 42 When Andrei Codrescu 43 The door marked Good... Chinese saying 45.-I my father remembered what it wad to be small 46 Knife can't whittle... Korean saying 46 In the Giant's Castle Ruth Dallas 47 Poem for My Father Eric Chock 48 Next Time Naomi Shihab Nye 48 Human Affection Stevie Smith 49 Awapuhi Puanani Burgess 50 Another Life Dana Naone Hall 50 Teu Alistair Campbell 51 My Mother's Humming John Enright 52 Son John Enright 52 Who's Who Bengali oral tradition 53 Clouds on the Sea Ruth Dallas 54 The ears are brothers... Philippine saying 54 Before We Go Richard Tipping 54 For My Brother Cathy Song 57 (.,1 t-j } owls started this 58 Always Surprised Howard Norman 59 Bats Randall Jarrell 60 You Can Go Very Far at That John Tagliabue 61 The Shark John Ciardi 62 Epigram Su Tung P'o 62 Telling a fish... Burmese saying 63 Water a cow drinks... Wayne Westlake 63 Tongue... Philippine saying 64 Smart... Korean saying 64 To Puffin, a White Cat James Kirkup 65 One dog barks at nothing... Japanese saying 65 Full Moon Rhyme Judith Wright 66 Exchange Denise Levertov 66 Rooster... Philippine saying 66 Sandpiper Elizabeth Bishop 67 Birdfliesup... Japanese saying 67 How Birds Should Die Paul Zimmer

4 68 FallenflowerI see... Arakida Moritake 68 Earthworm... Philippine saying 68 Lives one day... Chinese saying 69 That snail... Yosa Buson 69 After the Alphabets W. S. Merwin 69 White Turtle Kauraka Kauraka 70 Landcrab II Margaret Atwood 70 Which L) tail? Which head? Mukai Kyorai 71 Lizard in Jug Susan Hampton 71 The Tree Alfred Kreymborg 73 i may be silent, but A Story That Could Be True William Stafford Silent, but... Tsuboi Shigeji The River Is an Island Hone Tuwhare Night Practice May Swenson The Eternal Ego Speaks Nissim Ezekiel Rainjtar Hi Lorna Goodison Tree grows the way they want it to... Korean saying Thread has to go... Korean saying Beware the Man Sam Hunt Summer grasses... Matsuo Basho The Peace Game Yasmine Gooneratne Get there first... Japanese saying Forgiveness Alistair Campbell Chinese Hot Pot Wing Tek Lum Write a bad dream... Chinese saying Dreamed that hut pen... Chinese saying Hope Is the Thing with Feathers Emily Dickinson So Much Happiness Naomi Shihab Nye My Happiness Gopal R. Honnalgere The Pure Suit of Happiness May Swenson One Leaping Dolphin Regarding Another, etc.... etc.... John Tagliabue The Anchor Takej Command Joseph Stanton 87 i heard my first love story The Minute I Heard My First Love Story Rumi Straight in the Eye Nissim Ezekiel

5 89 To Be in Love Gwendolyn Brooks 90 Heading North Richard Tipping 91 Sonnet CXVI William Shakespeare 92 Losing Track Denise Levertov 93 My Heart Kim Tong-myong 93 Quiet Pain Konai Helu Thaman 94 Poem Langston Hughes 94 Pantun Malay folk poem 94 Do You Love Me? anonymous 95 Silverswords Juliet Kono 95 Why Don't You Talk to Me? Alistair Campbell 96 Labu Robert Siti 97 To Wang Lun Li Po 97 Your Catfish Friend Richard Brautigan 99 what is the opposite of riot? 100 Some Opposites Richard Wilbur 101 The Chameleon John Gardner 101 Haiku Edmund Conti 101 A Fly Kauraka Kauraka 102 Man Alone the Beast Tony Quagliano 103 Stop! don 'tswat the fly... Kobayashi Issa 104 Don't Let That Horse Lawrence Ferlinghetti 105 Riding Lesson Henry Taylor 105 It was when we were winning... Burmese saying 106 Corn... Philippine saying 106 Spits straight up... Japanese saying 106 Painting the Gate May Swenson 107 PilLiws Bonnie Jacobson 107 Thumb Philip Dacey ' - -. / thought the earth remembered me 110 Sleeping in the Forest Mary Oliver 111 Behold (E Ike Mai) traditional Hawaiian chant 111 Town and Village Albert Wendt 112 Looking for Wainiha Reuben Tam 113 The man pulling radishes... Kobayashi Issa 113 Hearing the Named of the Valleys W. S. Merwin 114 from High Water Apisai Enos

6 115 Surf Lillian Morrison 115 Hokusai's Wave Olga Cabral 116 A Game Called Trying to Discern the IndividualJourney Keith Gunderson 117 It knocks at a door... Pablo Neruda 117 The spring sea... Yosa Buson 118 A Stone Souvenir Reuben Tarn 119 Pohaku Dawn Fraser 119 Pebble's Story A. R. Ammons 120 / Want an Island Konai Helu Thaman 121 The World Below the Brine Walt Whitman 122 Snail Federico Garcia Lorca 122 Beautiful, seen through holes... Kobayashi Issa 122 And That Piano Arthur Baysting 123 Mustard flowers... Yosa Buson 123 Proud Songsters Thomas Hardy 124 Rain on a Spring Night Tu Fu 125 Rain Hone Tuwhare 125 Clouds now and then... Matsuo Basho 126 from The Pond in a Bowl Han Yii 127 Coconut Shimazaki Toson 129 the afternoon swam by Afternoon Wang Phui Nam Beach Rainbow Takahashi Shinkichi A Thing of Beauty John Keats To Make the Portrait of a Bird Jacques Prevert Sung Emmanuel Torres There Are Poems Linda Pastan The Harp Po Chii-i Sunset Mbuyiseni Oswald Mtshali Evening Mohan Singh The Artutt Lisel Mueller Horse and Tree Rita Dove Credits Index

the little boy 1 a good boy 1 then you give 1 is about me 1 was to come 1 old and new 1 that old man 1 what we know 1 not up here 1 in and out 1

the little boy 1 a good boy 1 is about me 1 then you give 1 was to come 1 old and new 1 what we know 1 that old man 1 in and out 1 not up here 1 good for you 1 down at work 1 with his cat 1 it was new