Five poems by Jianqing Zheng

Nov 23, 2025
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Updated: Nov 24, 2025

Foggy Night

Somewhere a saxophone’s sob gropes through the rivertown of blues cloaked by the fog.

crossroads

a stop sign glows

in headlights

Sensual Expression

boogie-woogie

a swift tempo

of spiritual

bewilderment

hip-shakes

in happy collapse

Monoku

delta breeze a slow-tempo blues sways across cornfields

Monoku

night blues petrichor of land rustles in wind

Tanka

eruption

of jazz

fire rainbow

over

nightclub

Jianqing Zheng's poetry books include Dreaminations (Madville 2026), Visual Chords (Broken Tribe 2025), The Dog Years of Reeducation, and A Way of Looking. He has received three poetry fellowships from the Mississippi Arts Commission and edits Valley Voices: A Literary Review.

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