AT BAOSHAN To a Farmer Behind a butterfly, behind a buffalo Better than life in a watch factory Under the mountains and through the trees Beneath white heavens and on gray hills The water bubbles in pineapple red runnels It is your wife knitting in the cotton patch Your daughter washing your gumboots in the runnels Have you eaten yet and where are you going? Next |
The East Village Poetry Web Simon Schuchat |