Poetry / July 2011 (Issue 14)


Workers Disturb My Sleep in Beijing

by Salvatore Attardo

I hear the workers chattering late, right near
my window; finding sleep with China outside,
teeming immensity of land and people;
this morning, I realise they had been planting a tree.
 
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