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Half soldier, half medical professional. Secret poet.)

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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

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