Writer-in-residence in limbo.(New poems)(Poem) New Criterion | June 1, 2004| | COPYRIGHT 2004 Foundation for Cultural Review. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

 
Writer-in-residence in limbo 
 
after Li Po 
 
   How little they cared the cost! 
   Fine food on dishes of green jade, 
   like Ming grave goods-- 
 
   if I had died and gone to heaven, 
   heaven was a minor outpost, 
   far from the emperor's favor. 
 
   It was the raisin capital of the world, 
   where I ate and drank and did not think once 
   of you back east. I must have died. 
 
   One of the women drove me east 
   to see the giant sequoias. I was so small, 
   just clay in the shape of a servant at their feet. 
 
   Far above me, boughs swished and sighed 
   like the ...

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