Siamese Cat

For the brilliant musician 李妙儿 -Li Miao Er

a bamboo ceiling.
            sits beneath the glass one
                        change your facade for monolingual. tongues
            green bamboo 
                        grows into 
                        clicketty clack, clicketty clack, clicketty clack
            flooring. 

your face says country stays with everyone
                                    on this terrain.

            if you were in the east, would you surface or follow him?

            猫工 mao gong 贸工.
            you look to highlight these
                        fresh wet markets, your translucent skin,
                                                                        the remote lush valleys.
            Juxtapositions

                        it’s beautiful for the most part.
                                    it’s more pretty, weird, remote 
                                                            and extremely you.

                                    diverse within provinces of pine
            landscapes of mountainous mountains
 
                                    but would you lead him wherever you go and 	
                                                mark stiletto dents on the soft hard floor?
 
                                    you say that I’m not a patriot
                                                and that is always a moral dilemma. 

            clicketty clack, clicketty clack, clicketty clack 
            above me.