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Article: Writer-in-residence in limbo.(New poems)(Poem)
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- New Criterion
- Article date:
- June 1, 2004
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Writer-in-residence in limbo
after Li Po
How little they cared the cost!
Fine food on dishes of green jade,
like Ming grave goods--
if I had died and gone to heaven,
heaven was a minor outpost,
far from the emperor's favor.
It was the raisin capital of the world,
where I ate and drank and did not think once
of you back east. I must have died.
One of the women drove me east
to see the giant sequoias. I was so small,
just clay in the shape of a servant at their feet.
Far above me, boughs swished and sighed
like the silken sleeves of court,
the needles unthreading.
Sometimes we took boys with us
to ...
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