Shanghai

Vapor air clouds dance
Inside particles of light
Sun's energy sends fragments
Across sea crossing

Black diamonds weave selves
Into ancient discoveries

Clear sky dances in and out -
Thundering down on female tides

We drag out
Financial negotiations
Emotional platitudes
Heartbreak hotel hostilities

Laughing fish swim in circles

Past our equilibrium into
Warlords's glancing shards

Without deception, guile or cunning
Intention
Moon slides away in clear contention

Garden book falls from bamboo chair
Legs rock on red tile
Spotted by rain dust circles

Dictionary of Symbols
Fills a tree as
Twilight locust songs
Transfer to new corners of sky

Snail's spiral edges along granite road
Bamboo leaves in shadow
Broken orange hibiscus turns brown

Insistent demanding human voices
Overcome determined purple petals
Dancing in the not knowing