undercurrent
undercurrent
rita wong
with drawings by cindy mochizuki
2015
Copyright © Rita Wong, 2015
all rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without prior permission of the publisher or, in the case of photocopying or other reprographic copying, a licence from Access Copyright, the Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency, www.accesscopyright.ca, info@accesscopyright.ca.
Nightwood Editions
P.O. Box 1779, Gibsons, BC, V0N 1V0, Canada
typesetting & cover design: Carleton Wilson
cover art: Marika Swan • interior drawings: Cindy Mochizuki
Nightwood Editions acknowledges financial support from the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund and the Canada Council for the Arts, and from the Province of British Columbia through the British Columbia Arts Council and the Book Publisher’s Tax Credit.
This book has been produced on 100% post-consumer recycled, ancient-forest-free paper, processed chlorine-free and printed with vegetable-based dyes.
Printed and bound in Canada.
library and archives canada cataloguing in publication
Wong, Rita, 1968-, author
Undercurrent / Rita Wong ; with drawings by Cindy Mochizuki.
Poems.
“A blewointment book”.
Issued in print and electronic formats.
ISBN 978-0-88971-308-6 (pbk.).--ISBN 978-0-88971-045-0 (pdf)
I. Title.
PS8595.O5975U54 2015 C811’.54 C2015-901130-2
C2015-901131-0
“We do not own the water. The water owns itself.”
– Lee Maracle
The water belongs to itself.
“Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle, and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. That water can flow, or it can crash. Be water my friend.”
– Bruce Lee
我
很
感
謝
這
裡
的
原
住
民
–黃錦兒