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REFLECTIONS
OF THE LADY CH'ANG
Half-awake she
hears hooves at the door—
a stallion
enters her Chamber of Longing.
When the door
thunders shut
she recalls the
fury of her childhood;
mother's
venomous beauty,
father, adept at
lighting amber
in the eye of
the sexual god.
The listless
husband picked out for her
has left her
without heirs.
Beyond that gate
the dreaming dog
paws at
dragonflies that hover between heaven
and earth. The
Lady
of the Hall of
the Star that Rewards Long Life
conjures a horse
to speed through clouds.
He balks at her
command.
She twirls the
gold charm sent by the lord
with his ode to
a roan mare in autumn.
On tiles thinned
by wind, rain, sun,
lie bare prints
of her frenzied walk, back and forth.
Forest animals
track the night sky.
The
reconciliation she struggles to release
is a Leaf Wing
pressed from a cocoon,
the cracking of
the tortoise through its shell.
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