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Beijing, 1985: a poet describes herding pigs

beside a girl with a glass eye and affirms

the power to dream and transform. Later,

in exile, he axes his wife and hangs himself.

Do the transformations of memory

become the changing lines of divination?

Is the continuum of a moment a red

poppy blooming by a fence, or is it

a woman undergoing radiation treatment

who stretches out on a bed to rest

and senses she is stretching out to die?

At night I listen to your breathing,

guess at the freckles on your arms,

smell your hair at the back of your neck.

Tiger lilies are budding in pots in the patio;

daikon is growing deep in the garden.

I see a bewildered man ask for direction,

and a daikon picker points the way with a daikon.