荷花長夾Lotus long-wallet (sold) by Chu Lan 朱蘭皮藝
工作進度之流程：上彩和油染 Work progress: coloring and oil dyeing
蓮花不顧一切地綻放 🪷 Poetry 🪷 Lotus Flowers Bloom Regardless -Anne Carson-
China on My Mind
Beijing shadows chase the kite flyer across the square
Our musician guide tells how he was made to smash his violin, his love
Fifty years on and grief still shapes his hands; splinters in his palms
Taoist statues wear ragged wounds in place of noses
Practitioners snow-bound in Siberia; statues humiliated at home Beijing shadows chase the kite flyer across the square
Allowed back to the monastery, the monk first mends kicked-in doors
Half his time in practice, the other opening gates for strangers
Fifty years on and grief still shapes his hands; splinters in his palms
Empty after fullness; women forced to miscarry mourn their unborn
Mattresses soaked in tears and no one to staunch the flow
Beijing shadows chase the kite flyer across the square
The Yangste is a brown water vortex to another world
In the lea of the giant Buddha the boatman strains against his oars
Fifty years on and grief still shapes his hands; splinters in his palms
Lotus flowers brave the smoke-grey air, bloom regardless
The Falung Gong follower keeps faith behind closed doors
Beijing shadows chase the kite flyer across the square
Fifty years on and grief still shapes his hands; splinters in his palms
On Giving Away Your Old Red Scarf
The elegance of our dance ─ like brolgas courting ─ on earth and in air too ─ from body to spirit, spirit back to body ─
