How to Enjoy Watercolor
Sha Huang
It’s okay to be unsure when your brush touches the paper
A brush moves with its own will
water and color collide
Wrestle, merge, and give birth
Spontaneous interaction
unpredictable, unrepeatable
A fish can shift into a bird
Burning forests emerge from a planned ocean
Accept the power of chance
kiss accidents
create with “mistakes”
Allow a hidden flower to reveal her flare
on a piece of white
with boundless potential
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Sha Huang
Sha Huang grew up in China. Her poems appeared in many literary journals and anthologies in China, the U.S, Canada, and Europe, including Muddy Review Poetry Review, Ekaphrastic Review, Verse Virtual, The Wild Word, Panloply Zine, and Chinese and Western Poetry (中西诗歌). She was a nominee for Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net 2021. She has a bilingual poetry book October Fruit with the Milky Way Publishing (银河出版社) in Hong Kong and her poems were awarded the outstanding translated poems in the third Flush Poetry Festival. In addition to writing poems, she also enjoys creating art. Her art works were published Ekaphrastic Review and exhibited in Suzhou, China, Asheville, North Carolina, and Acworth, Georgia. She currently teaches Chinese and Asian cultures at Kennesaw State University.
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