Re-Creating

Towards the summer sky

I make a shape of heart

With my clumsy hands

This is the feel of life

I tell the season

This is to illuminate the dark

Dreamland like a searchlight

I tell the crow stalking behind

Like the spirit of my late 

Father. This is to gather all

The positive energy in the world &

Send it to the future. I tell my

Unborn grandson. This is the cycle 

Of life & the philosopher’s stone

I tell the greening copse. This is 

The circle to fill in with cries

& laughs. 

       I tell my other self

Beyond the cosmic wall, as if 

To balance yin and yang

     In the whole universe 

Soulmating: for Qi Hong

He lives on the yang side of the planet

& she on the yin; through platonic love

They maintain the balance in (human) nature

His is hard & straight like ‘1’ while hers

As soft & circular as ‘0’; coupled together

They make up the whole cyberspace

Time renders him immortal, when space

Expands her indefinitely. Entangled, they form

The coordinate, where history sucks all black holes

Feminism in Chinese Characters: A Bilinguacultural Poem

妇：lady is a woman who has overthrown a mountain

好：wo man spelt as one word simply means good

妙：young women supporting each other are always wonderful

嫁：to marry a man is for a girl to have her own family

妖：weird would be a woman if she becomes broken 

姣: handsome is a woman standing with her legs crossed

婢：maid is a girl who is by nature humble

婵：beautiful is she who remains single

娘：mother is perforce a lady who is good and kind