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Sung Dynasty

Sung Dynasty: a poem

issue 22 September 2007

Sung Dynasty

My lover tells me that when autumn
comes
He will fashion me a boat of cherry
blossom:
There’s no way I’m getting in that.

Sean O’Brien

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