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  • Autumn Portrait
  • Jidi Majia

In the stillness after autumn dusklying on his back, he was transformed into landHe slowly stretched out his limbsThe sun burned its last kiss into bronze skinA flock of sun birds began in unisondancing freely on his eyelashesIn the swaying wind, the heavy moon reverberatedand earrings were hung from the crown of the treeIllusions of the skyfell into the land’s pores, filling themThe sentimental tears of two highland lakespoured into the nameless moisture of the eyes

The muntjac walk across this land,their four feet tread a rhythmic beatthat joins the pulse from the heartHis hair is a mysterious forestHis nostrils are serene stone cavesPheasants sing in his earsBetween the upper and lower lipthe tiger leaps across the trembling gorge [End Page 36]

So many complex scents dissolve on the bodyThe sweetness of strawberriesThe fragrance of venisonAnd so the land’s depths dreamof cloud-like clothesbearing the gold mouth harpunder the stars

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