May 23 2008
For Jamyang Kyi
So many years, so much faith, Hu,
such bounty in mankind,
the sun shining through its lens
to etch truth into books.
I hold a mirror to my face, looking at
my life from the world’s arched back.
Steel rods fill the mandala of my dreams,
bars that won’t let me leave like I should,
to leap over the Great Wall to the [...]
