Emily Strauss
Ideogram
the interior of the word
like a Chinese symbol—
sound attached to its shape
as if listening inside a sea
shell to a distant roar living
within its opalescence,
hold your ear to the radical
and hear Du Fu writing
silently in his grass hut,
an exile from his hearth
Bio
Emily Strauss has an M.A. in English, but is self-taught in poetry. Over 170 of her poems appear in dozens of online venues and in anthologies. The natural world is generally her framework; she often focuses on the tension between nature and humanity, using concrete images to illuminate the loss of meaning between them. She is a semi-retired teacher living in California.