Yun Wang: “Winter Seascape”
WINTER SEASCAPE
Cacti-covered hills drop down
toward jade-skirted sapphire sea
Oil rigs roost on hazy horizon
White mansions dream on cliff ledges
Scattered domes of blue oaks
fasten cracked earth
* * *
Winter sun in late afternoon
casts a blinding tunnel in the sea
It follows me along the shore
Translucent waves rush the beach
to polish veined dark pebbles
* * *
We have sailed past each other in the dark
The moon’s silver candle lights the ocean
Water pulses loud with invitation
I feel the tug of star tides
anchoring me in an invisible harbor
Yun Wang is the author of two poetry books, The Book of Totality (Salmon Poetry Press, 2015) and The Book of Jade, Winner of the 15th Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize (Story Line Press, 2002); two poetry chapbooks, Horse by the Mountain Stream (Word Palace Press, 2016) and The Carp (Bull Thistle Press, 1994); as well as a book of poetry translations, Dreaming of Fallen Blossoms: Tune Poems of Su Dong-Po (White Pine Press, 2019). Wang’s poems have been published in numerous literary journals, including Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, Cimarron Review, Salamander Magazine, Green Mountains Review, and International Quarterly. Yun Wang is a cosmologist at California Institute of Technology, currently focusing on developing space missions to explore the Universe.