Illustrations

Prologue

Preface & Foreword Conversations

The Critical Personal Narrative

Editor's Note

Wood
hun (active awareness /self-serving)

east wind blows

5

aquamarine spring

13

dawn arousal hollers

23

Fire
shen (transcendent awareness /self-dissolving)

red heat joy

41

giggling noon

53

south summer roar

75

Earth
yi (passive awareness /self-locating)

in afternoon poise

99

sweet fragrant harvest

115

indian summer hums

135

as yellow-ocher quavers

147

Metal
po (subliminal awareness /self-defining)

dry dusk sobs

171

west of autumn

185

in cracking white sorrow

203

Water
zhi (primal awareness /self-preserving)

north of midnight

219

sucking winter death

235

cold purple groan

259

salty germination inhales

273

A Conversation Afterword

References

Index