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ORCHID AND ORANGE II
2023-12-06ORCHID AND ORANGE II Zhang Jiuling Here, south of the Yangzi, grows a red orangetree. All winter long its leaves are green, Not because of a warmer so...
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ORCHID AND ORANGE I
2023-12-06ORCHID AND ORANGE I Zhang Jiuling Tender orchid-leaves in spring And cinnamon- blossoms bright in autumn Are as self- contained as life is, Which conf...
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Aerialist
2023-12-06Her life is the wire-she can never come down. Sometimes she stops and sits on it to eat, even sleeps there, her whole body stretched as the wire is st...
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Advice to a Prophet
2023-12-06When you come, as you soon must, to the streets of our city, Mad-eyed from stating the obvious, Not proclaiming our fall but begging us In God's n...
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Achilles' Song
2023-12-06I do not know more than the Sea tells me, told me long ago, or I overheard Her telling distant roar upon the sands, waves of meaning in the cradle of ...
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Achill
2023-12-06I lie and imagine a first light gleam in the bay After one more night of erosion and nearer the grave, Then stand and gaze from the window at break of...
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Absence
2023-12-06Translated by Henry Israeli The moon nicotine of a kiss. . . A sideways glance like the mast of a pirate ship beyond a distant island...
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Above the Fire
2023-12-06Above the fire a man floats in a boat. Above the fire a woman is devoured by a snake, unseen. The leaves are yellow alongside & in the wake the tr...
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About Face
2023-12-06Because life's too short to blush, I keep my blood tucked in. I won't be mortified by what I drive or the flaccid vivacity of my last dinner p...
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A Word From the Fat Lady
2023-12-06It isn't how we look up close so much as in dreams. Our giant is not so tall, our lizard boy merely flaunts crusty skin- not his fault they keep h...