I was born away from home home was an abstraction a distant future an idealization I waited, patiently For thirteen years Until the boarder officer said -- Welcome home And now I must find home again
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Because you loved freedom more than the world
Because you loved freedom more than the world You are once again a free soul, moving between lives — From sins of the family, and curses for daughters — To make forgiveness possible Yesterday we were four children from the last millennium Searching for the Big Dipper in the Southeast Asian sky I wanted to be an artist, you said, and I a scientist Tonight in the Bay Area I saw the Dipper again And I knew that nothing is lost — Your dream is safe with me; I am the part of you that survived And I finally learned peace from the chaos we shared “Then I saw a new heaven and new earth, for the first heaven and first earth had passed away.” And then I saw New Eden. Good night, my sister Farewell and godspeed (Sylvia Winters to Jing Xue 1991-2025) The night my sister died, I stood in my backyard. In the distance, I heard the traffic on Highway 101, and the droning of planes heading toward San Francisco Airport. There wasn't a moon, but the sky was clear, and I coul...