the child born in the East
discovered by a lone wise man
he brings not gold nor frankincense nor myrrh
for gold softens, frankincense and myrrh combust
...
Half soldier, half medical professional. Secret poet.)
Fan Ye Fan
the child born in the East
discovered by a lone wise man
he brings not gold nor frankincense nor myrrh
for gold softens, frankincense and myrrh combust
what he offers is too vast to bring
manchurian girl, born of horse and grass
finds herself strapped to a strange man's chest
expressing a jumbled language through olive eyes
Extraordinary
the girl undertakes a lengthy journey
she naps on the hump of a camel
and cries in the viscera of a flying machine
message manifest
a boy a girl a woman
greet the strange man
who is no longer so strange
and embrace the child
with limbic flush and racing heart
Extraordinary
skin caught on bone
a grotesque brachial scar
legacy of an ignorant herbalist
she becomes the boy's first patient
fed on familiar jello
and some vegetables
she won't eat meat
but grows
Extraordinary
fed on attention
and a swing and a slide
she thrives
when blood is given
from one to another
whose blood is it?
It matters not
Extraordinary
this blood has no lifespan
love transfused in a vigorous child
it is neither mine nor hers
love's triumph is that
it could not exist
without mind as body
body as mind
Extraordinary
without love
a great divide
like the century's wasting of Alsace
love creates
an omniscient union with invisible stitches
a family
Extraordinary
the boy has changed
like a leaf turning towards the sun
the ocean reflects sky
and he sees himself in her
and her in him
Fan Ye Fan
sinocryptic linguistics
a name meaning
Extraordinary