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A Winter Tree

Tangled vines, like frayed harp-strings, enact a wayward joy. Worldlings have turned away, hidden indoors to nurse their fire. But the trunk bends into a question mark between frost and rust, challenging all the assumptions of the season. –Jujube

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Prism

Where the light fractures, no shadow, past or present, can hide you. Time, pinned in space: does it lift what you carry, or anchor it forever? Amid the silent roar, going, yet never gone, you stand, trying to finish the sentence. — Jujube

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Visiting the Sky-Mother Mountain in a Dream: A Song of Farewell

脚著谢公屐, 身登青云梯。 半壁见海日, 空中闻天鸡。 … 列缺霹雳, 丘峦崩摧。 洞天石扉, 訇然中开。 Wearing the climbing shoes of Lord Xie, I ascend the ladder of blue clouds. Halfway up, I see the sun rising from the sea, In mid-air, I hear the rooster of heaven crow. … Lightning flashes…

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