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THE LITTLE JOSHUA TREE

                   lee Yong Ai

The sun melted the frozen desert
Disappeared behind the rocky hill
The black Joshua tree
Locked against the sunset's red glow
Stands with his little feet
On the half-melted snow field

When the darkness covers the desert
The bursting stars
May enthrall the Joshua
With their ancient desert tales
Unfinished from the night before

The dawn rose from the nude body of the woman
Who had stayed up millions of nights
Became a rock
And will embrace with a whitish glow
The Joshua that had been frozen all night

All day tomorrow the sun will melt
The remaining snow
When the icy water seep up from the ripped toes
It will flow throughout the whole body
Then will he look forward eagerly
To the day when the milkish, enchanting flower bloom?

In the frozen desert
Sustained
The little
Joshua tree