Yun Wang in a red shirt in front of a mountainous landscape.

Yun Wang, author of The Book of Mirrors, is a cosmologist at the California Institute of Technology.

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Liebestraum II

by Yun Wang 02-05-2025
A poem.
Illustration of half a woman's face visible from behind a birch tree.

Illustration by Bernard Leonardo

Fear turns me into a tree.
Every pruning healed
becomes an eye.

Sunlight plays the leaves,
each a pool of green incandescence,
a window to the heart.

Every wound a hieroglyph.
Each whisper a new chord.

Come inside my radiant dream:
a phoenix fruit ripens unseen.