





If there was a biography about you, what would the title be?
“Stumbling Through: A Life”

hazy valley:
after the harvest,
the fields are burnt.

a barren tree
clings to a cliff face;
winds have nothing to shake.



If you had the power to change one law, what would it be and why?
It would be whatever law gave one person the power to unilaterally change a law. That would be a terrible thing.



mountain bamboo,
on the sunny side,
cools & quiets.

even a stream
charges a toll, and
thwarts cheaters.
step on stone: slip & fall;
sink calf deep: you may pass.

rice harvested;
the paddies are dry.
buffaloes graze.