This poem is taken from PN Review 173, Volume 33 Number 3, January - February 2007.
Two PoemsAs Country Was Slow
for Peter
Our new motorway
is a cross-country fort
and we reinforcements
speed between earthworks
water-sumps and counterscarps,
breaking out on wide glimpses,
flying the overpasses -
Little paper lanterns
march up and down dirt,
wrapped round three chopsticks
plastic shrub-guards grow bushes
to screen the real bush,
...
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