即使孟浩然的墓碑在红色的松树上也不会刺痛

红松与鹅口疮交谈
当他可以的时候。鹅口疮
有时候让他失望
 
但这并不意味着
他不会尝试说话
再次画眉
 
也许画眉访问
孟浩然的坟墓
即使我写这首诗
 
也许画眉
不是永不乌鸦
等我 
 
在我的坟墓

REID MITCHELL is a New Orleanian teaching in China.  More specifically, he is a Scholar in Jiangsu Province’s 100 Foreign Talents Program, and a Professor of English at Yancheng Teachers University.  He is also Consulting Editor of CHA: AN ASIAN LITERARY JOURNAL.  His poems have been published by CHA, ASIA LITERARY REVIEW, IN POSSE, and elsewhere. His first collection, SELL YOUR BONES, was published by Berlin’s PalmArtPress.  Way back in the 20th century, he published the novel A MAN UNDER AUTHORITY.  He also had a separate career as an historian of the American Civil War.

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