Gary Blankenship is a retiree who dabbles in eastern poetry. He is author of The Poetic States and a drop of sunshine: Writers and Lovers Studio www.writers-and-lovers.com editor@ writers-and-lovers.com) and editor of Traci Siler's DemLips (same publisher. He is the author of A River Transformed: Wang Wei's River Wang Poems as Inspiration (Lulu.com) and the self-published Reflections and with Suzanne G. Griffith and Victoria Oak, Garbage Collection (contact the author at garydawg@msn.com). Gary published the online journal, MindFire Renewed and its companion, FireWeed. He has been widely publi...