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Viewing photographs of China,

we visit a pearl farm, factories, and

watch a woman stare at us ten

minutes after a surgical operation

with acupuncture.

The mind

is a golden eagle. An arctic tern

is flying in the desert: and

the desert incarnadined, the sun

incarnadined.

The photograph

of a poster of Chang Ch’ing is

two removes from reality. Lin Piao,

Liu Shao-chi, and Chang Ch’ing

are either dead or disgraced.

The poster shows her in a loose

dress drinking a martini; the

issues of the Cultural Revolution

are confounded.

And, in perusing

the photographs in the mind’s eye,

we discern bamboo, factories,

pearls; and consider African wars,

the Russian Revolution, the

Tierra Amarilla Courthouse Raid.

And instead of insisting that

the world have an essence, we

juxtapose, as in a collage,

facts, ideas, images:

the arctic

tern, the pearl farm, considerations

of the two World Wars, Peruvian

horses, executions, concentration

camps; and find, as in a sapphire,

a clear light, a clear emerging

view of the world.