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Chinese Writing

In my first week of studying Chinese writing, I placed two horses beside two tigers and the word careless formed. With just five brushstrokes, I...
Hudson Review, The, 04/01/09 by Allen, Dick · More from publication
A Zen Sonnet

(news clip on WTNH-TV, New Haven, CT) It's the knowing of not knowing, the firefighter said, about to leave New England for those summer thermals...
Hudson Review, The, 04/01/09 by Allen, Dick · More from publication
Last Ditch, The

We built it and maintained it with great effort, its earthen walls high, its planked floor solid enough above the ever-seeping groundwater to...
Hudson Review, The, 04/01/09 by Allen, Dick · More from publication
Leading a Horse to Water

Antioch Review, The, 06/22/08 by Dick (American poet) Allen · More from publication
Quiet Wonder

In Chinese landscape paintings, the scroll ones, where you carefully uncover, right to left, a forest and walk through it slowly, all your...
American Poetry Review, The, 01/01/08 by Allen, Dick · More from publication
Rowing a Boat Across China

It's not an easy task. The oarlocks rust, the crows seem too overhead. Once, as we neared a village under a steep cliff, oxen blocked our way...
American Poetry Review, The, 01/01/08 by Allen, Dick · More from publication

Five Household Statues of Buddha

The bronze Buddha in our living room, his eyes closed, his hands resting comfortably against his inside thighsâ what does he mean to tell me...
Atlantic, The, 12/01/06 by Dick Allen · More from publication
On tenterhooks

On tenterhooks On tenterhooks Suspense seldom kills, but too often stretched between the hooks, the cloth drying in the sun so its weave...
New Criterion, 05/01/06 by Dick Allen · More from publication
Joyas Voladoras and love in a box.(The Reader Replies)(Letter to the Editor)

"Joyas Volardores"? Surely the word was voladoras. If not, then where is your sic? Sic 'em, SCHOLAR! RUPERT ALLEN Tucson, Arizona I...
American Scholar, 01/01/05 by Allen, Rupert; Conway, Dick; Willhoite, Michael · More from publication
A Cautionary

How do you get through this life with its broken keyboards, its green awnings in the rain, a battered treetop and a broken knife? (the old man...
Hudson Review, The, 10/01/03 by Allen, Dick · More from publication