Even the east wind cannot bear it any longer; it turns into a secret light...   The Terrace of Yen Li Shang-yin     Dawn   already sad I cast [...]

You don't talk to the dead you talk at them setting the story aright   a canoe overturned in rapids belongings sodden tied down by intention   to survive words [...]

                                    To an old man what is more natural                                     than to die?                                                                         Cicero     Individuals die   species die the fleeting made eternal through incessant change yet how [...]

What havoc! even the winds and seas are in revolt in this best of all possible worlds   where peace is only possible in intimacy cultivate your own garden   [...]

She asks what is sacred answers herself   a mint stem's naked rootlets in a waterglass a second hand clicking   blackwings plunging through an ocean of air   a [...]

It was Rabbit you blamed for eating the primrose In reality it was Squirrel munching and digging with his sharp rodent claws excavator   acrobat evoking laughter his sandy-tan belly hugging [...]

                          What if the sovereign himself is the villainous                   [...]

                                    Listening...we don't.                                      The inner conversation never stops.                                     It's a constant racket                                                                         – Philip Glass     Almost breathless I sat down in my balcony mid-center seat [...]

Say I am the king's second daughter in a kingdom where everyone dies say I was sent to the city to recover the pearl guarded by a serpent I was [...]

Between here and there   one elongated time that began at the farthest reach glazed black pinnacles of rock minarets thrust skyward merging with wind-scoured boulders blocking passage north-northwest where you headed [...]