Fanny-Min Becker
San Francisco Album
(i)
Back from San Francisco
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Filled
My empty house
With the Pacific
And Pacifica
Space still
For him returning tomorrow
And space for my old self
Duesseldorf, 21.4.1999
(ii)
Since my Heimkehr
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Barely functioning
I swing
From Melancholy to Ecstasy
And back
It has to be a Depression
Coming down from Exaltation
Duesseldorf, 21.4.1999
(iii)
Two Blocks away from 46th
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On Eastern Pacific coast
The same water
The same waves
Echoes from Hong Kong
San Francisco, 22.3.1999
(iv)
Cable Cars Then & Now
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How could they have forbidden
Women to hang onto the poles
Those winds in San Francisco
Liked my hair flying with the cables
San Francisco, 12.4.1999
(v)
From a sand dune
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The Ocean intoxicates
For a second
A blue seagull
San Francisco, 14.4.1999
(vi)
On the Beach
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On black sands of San Francisco
Twinkling stars in zillions
A gentle galaxy
Underneath my boots
San Francisco, 22.3.1999
(vii)
Mellow
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Dearest Wine
Spare me the pain
Tell me not
You too need wine to mellow
Dear mellow Wine of Life
Duesseldorf, 17/21.4.1999
(viii)
Un-returned
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I returned the rice cooker to your kitchen
I returned the reading lamp to your desk
Your voice I keep in my pocket
Your compass I hold in my hand
Duesseldorf, 21.4.1999
(ix)
For you
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For you
I walked the beaches
For you
I picked up this stone
For you I'm keeping it
Blue in grey millions
A t m y h o m e
San Francisco, 14.4.1999
Fanny-Min Becker is a British Chinese turned German, living currently in Duesseldorf. Lover of what life has to offer, mother of three and more, friend, teacher, writing/reading fan, homemaker, student, roughly in that order. Her first poem, 'A Toi', appeared in Alliance Francaise Journal de Hong Kong, Numero 6, 1979. Her poems have been published in Lonesome Virgin, 1999 Poetry Calendar, Silhouettes in the Electric Sky, as well as e-zines, Gravity, Astrophysicist's Tango Partner Speaks, and Park and Read. Her chapbooks include: fleeting, From 16 stitches to meanwhile, The Snow Album, Dew Drops, NYC Album, Hong Kong Album 96,97,98, From bed to curtain, and SF Album.