Cloud Moving Hands

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 Cloud Moving Hands ii Pitt Poetry Series Ed Ochester, Editor iii Cloud Moving Hands � Cathy Song U n i v e r s i t y o f P i t t s b u r g h P r e s s iv Published by the University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, Pa., 15260 Copyright © 2007, Cathy Song All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Printed on acid-free paper 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 ISBN 13: 978-0-8229-6000-3 ISBN 10: 0-8229-6000-1  for my mother, Ella Yee Lan Song 1929–2004 vi vii Floating, floating, what am I like? Between earth and sky, a gull alone. —Tu Fu    We have lived and died so many times. —Ani Tenzin Palmo What we see is what our karmic vision allows us to see, and no more. —Sogyal Rinpoche viii ...