Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Prologue
Preface & Foreword Conversations
The Critical Personal Narrative
Editor’s Note
Wood
hun (active awareness /self-serving)
east wind blows
aquamarine spring
dawn arousal hollers
Fire
shen (transcendent awareness /self-dissolving)
red heat joy
giggling noon
south summer roar
Earth
yi (passive awareness /self-locating)
in afternoon poise
sweet fragrant harvest
indian summer hums
as yellow-ocher quavers
Metal
po (subliminal awareness /self-defining)
dry dusk sobs
west of autumn
in cracking white sorrow
Water
zhi (primal awareness /self-preserving)
north of midnight
sucking winter death
cold purple groan
salty germination inhales
A Conversation Afterword
References
Index
