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The morning sun shines Through the filigree shutters. A wind full of light Blows open her thin gauze robe. A sly smile comes on her lips. Her moth eyebrows arch Over her beautiful eyes. - Anonymous (Six Dynasties) translated from the Chinese - The Emperor Wu of Liang translated from the Chinese 70 71 WHEN WILL I BE HOME? A FAITHFUL WIFE When will I be home? I don't know. In the mountains, in the rainy night, The autumn lake is flooded. Someday we will be back together again. We will sit in the candlelight by the west window, And I will tell you how I remembered you Tonight on the stormy mountain.

Last night the Petals dropped from the tulips On the dresser. The signs of Your presence are leaving the House one by one. Being without You was almost more than I Could bear. Now the work is squared Away. All the arrangements Have been made. All the delays Are past and I am thirty Thousand feet in the air over A dark lustrous sea, under A low half moon that makes the wings Gleam like fish under water Rushing south four hundred miles Down the California coast To your curving lips and your . Ivory thighs.

All new, all strange, all different. Your own leaf pattern, your own Flower and fruit, but fed from One root, the root of our fused flesh. I and thou, from the one to The dual, from the dual To the other, the wonderful, Unending, unfathomable Process of becoming each Our selves for each other. 93 SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST A SINGING VOICE I realize as I Cast out over the lake At thirteen thousand feet I don't know where you are. It has been years since we Married and had children By people neither of Once, camping on a high bluff Above the Fox River, when I was about fourteen years Old, on a full moonlit night Crowded with whippoorwills and Frogs, I lay awake long past Midnight watching the moon move Through the half drowned stars.

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