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Five poems by Jianqing Zheng

  • Nov 23, 2025
  • 1 min read

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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