“There is a Season Waiting Behind This One” by Collier Nogues

There is a Season Waiting Behind This One
by Collier Nogues

_{Editor’s Note: This poem was specially commissioned for “The Writing Life Beyond COVID-10: A Virtual Residency” (3-9 August 2020, jointly organised by Cha: An Asian Literary Journal and the newly founded Mongrel Writers Residence. Photograph © Oliver Farry.}

_{How to cite: Nogues, Collier. “There is a Season Waiting Behind This One.” Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, 8 Aug. 2020, hkprotesting.com/2020/08/08/season/.}

Collier Nogues’s poetry collections are The Ground I Stand On Is Not My Ground (Drunken Boat, 2015) and On the Other Side, Blue (Four Way, 2011). Her work has been supported by fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Ucross Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, and Lingnan University. She teaches creative writing at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and is a PhD Fellow at the University of Hong Kong, where she studies experimental US anti-war poetry. She also edits poetry for Juked. Visit her website for more information.