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Autumn 1983 • Vol. V No. 4 • Poetry |

Around Its Knees

From the Japanese.  

On the Tsientang River near Hangchow Bay, south
of Shanghai, soars a giant, stone, eight-faced
pagoda offering walks ’round its knees to workers,
soldiers, families. Massive old giant mortared by
boiled rice laced with fat and blood; few windows,
and small, open to the sun and wind.

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