April 21, 2025

By Eric Chang

Tian

I was named 

after the sky

And my sister the earth

So that my parents

Could live forever

In our care

 

But though she walked

I could not fly

And the clouds were not friends

But dreams

 

And when the storms came

I stood by the red pine

And watched it get blown away.

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