
‘Entry No. 8 from my Grandmother’s Autograph Album’
by Miriam Wei Wei Lo
And yet. When I am not drunk with
scorn, I weep with longing: O to
embrace discipline! To know the
fierceness of virtue! To be a warrior
maiden, 越女 standing on a green field
beneath the open sky, with mountains
before me. To move with slow
deliberation through the sword forms:
White Crane Spreads its Wings after
Parting the Wild Horse’s Mane.
Volume 69 Number 2, May 2025
Cover: Emma Phillips, ‘Untitled 11’, 2023. Inkjet print on archival cotton rag paper. Image provided by artist. © Emma Phillips, 2023.