Minor heat Xiaoshu

(A break from Hefei)

by T.P. Wilkinson / July 3rd, 2022

Songs withdrawn

Less the longest shadow cast
Songs withdrawn through broken glass
Steps by angels gently taken
No distant bees dare awaken
Before all the toes in forests hung
From branches whence morning dew is wrung
Remove their socks or sandals plain
And spring to earth
Then we feel rain.

T.P. Wilkinson, Dr. rer. pol. writes, teaches History and English, directs theatre and coaches cricket between the cradles of Heine and Saramago. He is author of Unbecoming American: A War Memoir and also Church Clothes, Land, Mission and the End of Apartheid in South Africa. Read other articles by T.P..

This article was posted on Sunday, July 3rd, 2022 at 8:02am and is filed under Poetry.