‘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.