spring2015

Yuan ChangmingY.E.S.YYou are really obsessed with this letterYes, because it contains all the secrets ofYour selfhood: your name begins with itYou carry y-chromosome; you wearY-pants; both your skin and heart areYellowish; your best poem is titledY; you seldom seek the balance betweenYin and yang; you never want to be aYankee, but you yearn to remain asYoung as your poet son; in particularYou love the way it is pronounced, soYouthfully, as a word rather than a letter toYell out the human reasons; above allYour soul is a seed blown from afar, alwaysY-shaped when breaking the earth to greet springEborn to be a double reedthat can be bent into a long vowelthe most frequently used letterin english, echoing endlessly in silencesif pulled down, it offers two doorsone leading to Soul via will, the otherto Him via wisdom; if turned up rightit forms a mountain with three peakslike three holy swords, pointing highone against the sunone against the moonone against the skyFacing always towards the east, it embracesexistence, equality, eternity, emancipation...121