Making Light of Darkness in a world always half in darkness your body may be soaked deep in a nightmare, rotting but your heart can roam like a synchronous satellite in His space, leaving the long night far behind as long as your heart flies fast and high enough, you will live forever in light —Yuan Changming #ChangmingYuan

Directional Denotations South: not unlike a raindrop on a small lotus leaf unable to find the spot to settle itself down in an early autumn shower my little canoe drifts around near the horizon beyond the bare bay West: like a giddy goat wandering among the ruins of a long-lost civilization you keep searching in Central Park a way out of the tall weeds as nature wraps New York with mummy blue East: within her beehive-like room so small that a yawning stretch would re