when wafing tea breezes fill the air
sip warm oolong in the tea room
spent rice stalks smoking and burned
when the dry northerly wind dips low
typhoons pass over and under Taiwan
soon coolness will replace the sweat
over mountain ridges to greater heights
where trees shed orange and brown delights
falling from cypress forests down
past mid-autumn into winter ground
without a taste of New York bitter
change for better when the Han grows wetter
wrist-bound and fist thrust upward
clandestine soldiers wiser and older
political squabble break brittle and colder
when doors show their thresholds
only snowflakes enter
into the red chamber
into the red chamber
fine wine poured from Spain
drink warmly with my lady
9-23-13
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