A Visit to the Great Wall Stones' gathered silence greets visitors here, this place of perception and distance Whisper its secret: In immortality lies this meandering serpent's sole purpose. I, a foreign devil will crawl its back in small contemplation, a wandering day-fly emerged in the chattering tourists, descendents of Khan and of Edo who will take with them to their lands the spoils of their cameras. © Jon Bohrn (2003) |  |
