CONTENTS 1 Yingri 3 Pear-Skin Zisha 4 Prayer for a Bamboo-Flowering Famine 6 Dream of Ink-Brush Calligraphy 7 Prayer of Resistance 8 Meditation on a Cenote 9 Prayer under Mesa Light 10 Dream of Metasequoia 11 Sunday Is 12 Fire Season 13 Sweet Glossolalia 14 Preservation of Rare Languages 15 Praver for Himalayan Bees 17 On Twelve Minor Seas 19 Song of Feminaries 21 Phyla of Joy 22 2 Love and Solvency 25 Ounce of Camphor 26 Prayer for an Underground Supplicant 27 Prayer of a Xuerou Apiary 28 Questions and Canticles 29 Horses of Famine, Horses of War 30 Psalm I 31 Psalm II 32 Psalm III 33 Psalm IV 34 Psalm V 35 Faith by Hearing 36 3 Invocation 39 Hyacinth Sea Room In Praise of Wasps 40 Selenographia I 41 Selenographia II 42 Selenographia III 43 Selenographia IV 45 Selenographia V 46 Tea-Picking Opera 48 Celadon Stone 49 Celadon Glass 50 Celadon Water 52 Celadon Praise 53 Theories of the Soul 54 Prayer of Nuptial Flight 56 Notes 59 Acknowledgments 63.