Friday, October 28, 2005

Today the
postman brought
me a delicate
blue & white
porcelain
vase. Ming,
I thought
as I gently
flicked a
fingernail
against the
rim. “Qing”
it replied.

1 comment:

Jim said...

But,
did the
Ming "Quing" mercilessly?

(That's so bad, I actually winced.)

I love this series of poems by the way. I hope you will collect them all at some point and publish.