Legendary snow leopard
once roamed Chingkang Moungtain,
strode mightily
over the Great snowy Mountains…
His Long Marach cradled
sharpen claws;
he entered old age,
swam the Yangtze River
like a playful boy.
Thunderstorms come; a wilderness of snowflakes
fall across cities, countryside,
and nation-states;
As array of pale stars and stripes like a banner
of pale bones and blood
attempts to suffocate the world,
But heroes come again
amid a red sea of stars.

Luis Lazaro Tijerina, October 1st, 2009
Burlington, Vermont

Legendary snow leopard
once roamed Chingkang Moungtain,
strode mightily
over the Great snowy Mountains…
His Long Marach cradled
sharpen claws;
he entered old age,
swam the Yangtze River
like a playful boy.
Thunderstorms come; a wilderness of snowflakes
fall across cities, countryside,
and nation-states;
As array of pale stars and stripes like a banner
of pale bones and blood
attempts to suffocate the world,
But heroes come again
amid a red sea of stars.

Luis Lazaro Tijerina, October 1st, 2009
Burlington, Vermont