Editor’s note: The following poem, written about a decade ago, is about Liu Xiaobo, who was recently awarded the 2010 The Nobel Peace Prize. Liu, one of China’s preeminent dissident writers and activists, was arrested in December 2008 and a year later was convicted of incitement to subversion and sentenced to 11 years in prison. His home: Silicon Valley now, formerly Beijing, China. His family: father, mother, brother died in Tiananmen Square. His hobbies: forty-niners, tee shirts, diving in rubber suit. His goal: wed bride-to-be in the USA to form a family. His needs: return to birthplace summers, to visit deceased. His voice: tenor, sad urgency to tell all. His livelihood: plumber, connecting pipes like heart vessels. — Levinsky is a longtime La Jollan.