Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge

Mei-mei Berssenbrugge was born in Beijing, China on October 5, 1947, to a Chinese mother and American father. Her parents met while her father was working at the American Embassy in Chungking. Her mother was a

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by Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge (b. 1947)

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It's March; rain fills seven indentations in a large stone, like a table.

Then twilight, all is permeable, open to relation.

Then the Pleiades at night shine in collected rain; I open myself to receive their reflected light.

Starlight is so bright it seems dark to my unaccustomed eyes, as I enter into a closeness like disorientation.

So long as I feel my family around me, I haven't experienced oneness; it's difficult at night to hold onto self, when earth shifts through transformation.

Bright Pleiades circling night sky I address as sisters, kin, suggesting human form.

I refer more to relation than beings.

Everything seen establishes relation.

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