Thursday, January 23, 2014

REMEMBERING THE POPLAR TREES

we went inside the forbidden city
i was looking for poplars

none so far, until we went to the man-
made lake of the empress

where many workers died where many
soldiers died too after the siege of

the enemies of the emperor, and there
i saw the poplars lining the lake and there

i heard the sad song of the poplars
floating on the cold winds of November.

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