Linku Renku
There are two forms of collaboration on Linku Renku:
  1. 1. Renku parties, where all participants can read the entire poem-in-progress as they write together.
  2. 2. Work in Progress: Invitations, a version of Exquisite Corpse. Each participant only sees the previous line of the poem they are invited by e-mail to continue.
Renku 連句: According to the The Japanese Renku Association, renku 連句 is a question-and-answer style literary art in which the scene of the first line is the basis for the imagining of the next.
Exquisite Corpse /Cadavre exquis : Surrealists played the game Exquisite Corpse to stimulate creativity through collaboration. Players would contribute to a drawing of a figure without seeing what the others had done. Like a game of Telephone, the figure would become stranger with each player’s addition.   — MoMA

Untitled by Iugen and Bashoo

By moonlight
my poor mother at work
beside the window
She would hide fingers
stained with indigo

If I had a Cousin in Jerusalem

I would ask them to pause
within the city walls
lay their head on their pillow
and return something new
think functionally about any problem that arises

Holiday Spirit

Underneath the twinkling lights
and flurries all around,
I think of a loved one
while drinking hot cocoa

Closing in on the New Year 鞭炮

Firecrackers going off on the street from far to near
Greetings from friends walking through the door.
startle me in my sleep.
Remembering the countryside from the heart of Hong Kong.

A Flower in Her Hair

A red rose
Walking down the road slowly
It falls down to the floor
and withers.

James Joyce is My Favorite Bar

The rabbi helps him
The fluid flows like no one knows
My mouth is sticky like earthbound tar
My cheeks are red like dragonfly glows
Priests, rabbi, pastors can walk in
An Australian man falls in the bin
Instead, it is just deranged.
We try to write a poem of words rearranged.
Drinks are spilling. Words exchange.
cross the street

Fuck, Life is Hard

No hi havia a Valencia dos amants com nosaltres
Amor e fogo que arde sem se ver.
Blink, blink, HOSPITAL... SILENCE..
My love is like a red red rose
Wer sucht der findet nicht
Bagaikan air di daun talas
人生得意须尽欢,莫使金樽空对月
天生我材必有用,千金散尽还复来。
醉翁之意不在酒,在乎山水之間也。
A fresh coat of paint in this empty bar on Elgin St.