Wang Wei As A Form of Foreshadowing


WITH MORE WAYS

God isn't through with me yet
we say in Recovery.
My friends send poems.
My defense shield has failed.
19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei,
indeed, Eliot Weinberger.
I've just been presented
with 18 ways by God to laugh.
Don't you dare, I say,
as he brings mother
into the room
sitting her before me.

Jim Bodeen
16 November 2016


AFTERNOON IN THE GOBI-RATTLER ROOM
22 DAYS AFTER THE ELECTION

So many possibilities for distraction
following everyone I can.

Jim Bodeen
30 November 2016


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