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                      How to Enjoy Watercolor

                      Published by Sha Huang at February 26, 2022
                      Categories
                      • Poetry
                      Tags
                      • painting
                      • poetry
                      • watercolor
                      watercolor pink cherry blossoms

                      Image created onCanva

                      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 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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