2008
George Bishop's "Seasoning" contains some very interesting images, such as 'weeds / stand like old widows' and 'Soon, / everything's a rough / sketch'. The poem is at once whimsical and contemplative; it paints the delicate and miraculous transition from summer to winter. Not one extraneous word is used in "Seasoning", and the final verb, ‘whisper’, beautifully conjures the softness of new snow. - Tammy Ho Lai-Ming.
"Seasoning" by George Bishop
Late summer
and garden passwords begin
to change, the fingerprints
on flowers fall off and weeds
stand like old widows
wondering why they’re
outside. Soon,
everything’s a rough
sketch except stars
and the combinations
of snow they whisper.
and garden passwords begin
to change, the fingerprints
on flowers fall off and weeds
stand like old widows
wondering why they’re
outside. Soon,
everything’s a rough
sketch except stars
and the combinations
of snow they whisper.
Tammy Ho Lai-Ming's "Painting" in Issue #3.
Tammy Ho Lai-Ming is a founding co-editor of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. She has edited several volumes of poetry and short fiction published in Hong Kong, including Quixotica: Poems East of La Mancha (Chameleon, 2016), Desde Hong Kong: Poets in conversation with Octavio Paz (Chameleon, 2014), Love & Lust (Hong Kong Writers Circle / Inkstone Books, 2008) and Hong Kong U Writing: An Anthology (Department of English, University of Hong Kong, 2006). She is an Assistant Professor at Hong Kong Baptist University, where she teaches poetics, fiction and modern drama. She received the Young Artist Award in Literary Arts 2015 from the Hong Kong Arts Development Council. Her short story collection Her Name Upon The Strand will be published by Delere Press in 2016.
Tammy Ho Lai-Ming is a founding co-editor of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. She has edited several volumes of poetry and short fiction published in Hong Kong, including Quixotica: Poems East of La Mancha (Chameleon, 2016), Desde Hong Kong: Poets in conversation with Octavio Paz (Chameleon, 2014), Love & Lust (Hong Kong Writers Circle / Inkstone Books, 2008) and Hong Kong U Writing: An Anthology (Department of English, University of Hong Kong, 2006). She is an Assistant Professor at Hong Kong Baptist University, where she teaches poetics, fiction and modern drama. She received the Young Artist Award in Literary Arts 2015 from the Hong Kong Arts Development Council. Her short story collection Her Name Upon The Strand will be published by Delere Press in 2016.
