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Digging
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781925780819
Publisher: Puncher & Wattmann
Published: Aug 18 2020
Pages: 164
Weight: 0.49
Height: 0.38 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
Digging
Squatting, my wife was digging in the field
While I was digging, sitting on the ridge
My wife was digging for the sweet potatoes
And I was digging for poetry
With an easy dig
My wife dug out a sweet potato
But I spent a long time
Managing to dig out only a single line
The more my wife dug the more delighted she was
But the more I dug, the more frustrated I was
The field where my wife had dug for the sweet potatoes
Had furrows, long and short
Meandering like lines of poetry
Whereas the poems I had dug
Had each line so knotty
That it resembled the sweet potato, gnawed by the ground lizard
Ren Yi (Ren Zhilin), born in the 1950s, is from Shanghai. He is now deputy secretary-general of the Pujiang Literature Society, deputy general manager of Pujiang Literature Exchange Centre for Literature and Arts, Minhang, Shanghai, and an editor of Pujiang Literature.
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