Blues
What color is desire
and what does exile color?
Across these divisions pale hands arrive, in letters with foreign stamps.
I urge them out into the light and place them on my scarred face.
Thus ends a long summer of thirst. Then the recoil of my lips frees words
as they begin to interrogate your lips for answers, assurances and silences.
What color is desire and what does exile color?
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From Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman
Joy, shipmate, joy!
(Pleas'd to my soul at death I cry.)
Our life is closed, our life begins,
The long, long anchorage we leave,
The ship is clear at last, she leaps!
She swiftly courses from the shore,
Joy, shipmate, joy!
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A Mosaic: Western China
[1]
Stilt walkers in the shadow Of a skull, a white domed mountain.
I look up and see their dragon faces, I look down and see you, in the trampled snow.
[2]
On the weathered jamb of the school door This sign, “We will learn for the revolution”.
A line of children, grin at the camera’s eye. Who are the hard jawed revolutionaries here?
[3]
Winter pasture has turned into spring, A line of yaks, tolling bells, graze.
A shepherd girl with green eyes becomes, A pink tulip in a field of yellow mustard.
[4]
The penitent on horseback ride into A storm, a fortress, a pedestal, an oblivion.
Even though the Revolutionary Army peed in it, the Potala beckons: a mirage, a nirvana.
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