Water Chestnut Poems | Examples


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Carried Off In a Flood

the open-hair magnolia remains standing
putting a hand on the window-bar 
of the camellia 

sometimes 
i think of knowing from her 
through sending a pink-letter 
who have gone in the fall of night 
crossing the border  
on foot 

and who have like to deposit
the spoilt water-chestnut 
on the obsolete narrow-gauge 

does the wild moon ever take hot water 
from the slow river-quay of this city 

following the rein-deer 
it seems
his t-shirt has also disappeared 

the pictorial cave-writings gradually 
putting their flag down 
on the cornice of clouds 
that return home in the evening 

even-then 
why the sinthi with it flows 
has smeared so much green 

even-then 
on this operation table 
which wind brings in 
so much lemon leaves 

and why 
so much light of carried off in a flood 
has overflowed the blossoms of the brinjal

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