throwing the yarrow sticks, Chinese coins,
bones left after ceaseless wars --
Lao Tzu told us
destruction makes way for the new --
the old ones fingered hexagram'd solutions
with the meaning of motion sickness --
darkness births light
made of prophecies
read from tortoise shells and entrails --
war and DNA dances
the eternal turning of change where
high has fallen low and low is beholden
to everything coming and going --
ancient Chinese sages and generals
blew open the doors and shut the windows
to keep out the foreign invaders
with their great wall a line in the sand --
now the walls are shaken and the rivers gorged
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