The universal post is a mystical form of martial arts We can never fully understand the way it is done It seems like an embrace with a smiling face You use your strength from within You are relaxed and use no force It is like clouds floating in the wind from all directions You use [...]

Over the past year I have been researching the symbolic meanings found in acupuncture meridians and point names. What follow are poems based upon the English translation of the point names: the gushing spring is the stumbling heart; the blazing valley is the dragon in the abyss; yet the water must rise from the one through [...]