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Poem: On Meeting Chinese Colleagues for the First Time

06/05/2020R. Horton

He told me his name
and said it is like a
butterfly hovering over
fresh blooms in an open field.

The department chair
raised her eyebrows, smiled,
and said, “Can you tell us
the significance of your name
one more time?”

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